Re: Re* [PATCH v3] Documentation: specify base point when generating MyFirstContribution patchset
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 4:09 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Subject: [PATCH] MyFirstContribution: teach to use "format-patch --base=auto"
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> Let's encourage first-time contributors to tell us what commit they
> based their work with the format-patch invocation. As the example
> already forks from origin/master and by branch.autosetupmerge by
I think you meant: s/and by/and/
> default records the upstream when the psuh branch was created, we
> can use --base=auto for this. Also, mention the readers that the
s/the readers/to readers/
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> range of commits can simply be given with `@{u}` if they are on the
> `psuh` branch already.
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> As we are getting one more option on the command line, and spending
> one paragraph each to explain them, let's reformat that part of the
> description as a bulletted list.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>