Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Add --base option to git-format-patch to record base tree info

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 26, 2016, 18:05 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqlh40gs9o.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kajpAtbHaKLaLHN5+qUOvBofFs-q-vUYWua49GWK7FO9Q@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

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>     git checkout origin/master
>     # toy around, do stuff
>     git checkout -b new-shiny-feature
>     git format-patch origin-master..
>
> Now I have set the format.useautobase option and then the `git format-patch`
> fails with
>
>     fatal: Failed to get upstream, if you want to record base commit
> automatically,
>     please use git branch --set-upstream-to to track a remote branch.
>     Or you could specify base commit by --base=<base-commit-id> manually.
>
> but as I indicated I want patches from origin/master onwards,
> Could we make use of that information?

As you indicated where other than in this e-mail?

I think the way for you to indicate that desire expected by this series is to use "git branch" to set upstream of new-shiny-feature branch to origin/master. Shouldn't that work, or is that too much work?