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Re: How to watch a mailing list & repo for patches which affect a certain area of code?

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Ian Kelling <ian@iankelling.org>
Date
Oct 10, 2016, 20:49 UTC
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On Mon, Oct 10, 2016, at 12:08 PM, Stefan Beller wrote:
> Well it is found in 2.9 and later. Currently the base footer is
> opt-in, e.g. you'd
> need to convince people to run `git config format.useAutoBase true` or to
> manually add the base to the patch via `format-patch --base=<commit>`.

Nice. Another useful config option this lead me to find is git config --global branch.autoSetupMerge always which sets up the remote for local branches, allowing useAutoBase to work for them without extra typing (according to the man page, I haven't tried it yet).

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  1. Ian KellingOct 9, 2016
  2. Jason PyeronOct 9, 2016
  3. Stefan BellerOct 10, 2016
  4. Jason PyeronOct 10, 2016
  5. Stefan BellerOct 10, 2016
  6. Jason PyeronOct 10, 2016
  7. Ian KellingOct 10, 2016
  8. Eric WongOct 10, 2016
  9. Jakub NarębskiOct 10, 2016

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