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Re: [PATCH] MyFirstContribution: teach to use "format-patch --base=auto"

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Oct 23, 2021, 21:03 UTC
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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
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> On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 2:43 AM Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> s/bulletted/bulleted/
Thanks; will fix locally.
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  1. MyFirstContribution: teach to use "format-patch --base=auto"Bagas Sanjaya, Oct 22, 2021
  2. Eric SunshineOct 22, 2021
  3. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2021
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2021

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