Re: [PATCH] MyFirstContribution: teach to use "format-patch --base=auto"
On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 2:43 AM Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
>
> 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 branch.autosetupmerge by
> default records the upstream when the psuh branch was created, we
> can use --base=auto for this. Also, mention to the readers that the
> range of commits can simply be given with `@{u}` if they are on the
> `psuh` branch already.
>
> 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>
> [Bagas Sanjaya: fix grammar in commit message and explain `auto` value]
> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>