From: Ian Kelling <ian@iankelling.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 20:49:20 GMT
Subject: Re: How to watch a mailing list & repo for patches which affect a certain area of code?
Message-ID: <1476132560.1716398.751654049.5C8CC9EA@webmail.messagingengine.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kb2HWmaW3XpfHRj8vcOStPoQmR_NZe7RCRhw=FnnHbZ8A@mail.gmail.com>

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).