[issue23942] Explain naming of the patch files in the bug tracker

[Martin Panter]

Martin Panter added the comment:

I guess if people wonder about this, you could at least say the naming doesn’t matter very much for the review system.

If I am generating my own patches, I try to name them with one or two concise words describing the particular solution, and then insert “.v2”, “.v3” etc for the revised patches. If I just gave them an issue number, it would get lost my Mercurial patch queue among a sea of other numbers. If I did not add the “.v2” revision number, people would have to refer to the patches by upload date rather than name or version.

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