X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/stgit/blobdiff_plain/b839b1cf42be33947adb87d6a2ae2164aad2371e..99c529152847b7e20e48dc477925e315918eed5d:/stgit/commands/common.py

diff --git a/stgit/commands/common.py b/stgit/commands/common.py
index d986711..4e802bc 100644
--- a/stgit/commands/common.py
+++ b/stgit/commands/common.py
@@ -294,14 +294,15 @@ def patch_name_from_msg(msg):
     subject_line = msg[:30].lstrip().split('\n', 1)[0].lower()
     return re.sub('[\W]+', '-', subject_line).strip('-')
 
-def make_patch_name(msg, unacceptable, default_name = 'patch'):
+def make_patch_name(msg, unacceptable, default_name = 'patch',
+                    alternative = True):
     """Return a patch name generated from the given commit message,
     guaranteed to make unacceptable(name) be false. If the commit
     message is empty, base the name on default_name instead."""
     patchname = patch_name_from_msg(msg)
     if not patchname:
-        patchname = 'patch'
-    if unacceptable(patchname):
+        patchname = default_name
+    if alternative and unacceptable(patchname):
         suffix = 0
         while unacceptable('%s-%d' % (patchname, suffix)):
             suffix += 1