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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-11-01 17:10:25 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-11-01 17:10:25 -0700 |
| commit | 52964adb5d9f69af428a87b5c004c2ac6bd7b824 (patch) | |
| tree | cd99de6e66ce09182bb7db619024c8d2eeb005f3 /git-format-patch.txt | |
| parent | 19dcd3f0b9267bf8ca50aa402ecf9f18957583c0 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-52964adb5d9f69af428a87b5c004c2ac6bd7b824.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.34.0-rc0-19-g0cddd
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diff --git a/git-format-patch.txt b/git-format-patch.txt index fe2f69d36..113eabc10 100644 --- a/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/git-format-patch.txt @@ -689,10 +689,10 @@ You can also use `git format-patch --base=P -3 C` to generate patches for A, B and C, and the identifiers for P, X, Y, Z are appended at the end of the first message. -If set `--base=auto` in cmdline, it will track base commit automatically, -the base commit will be the merge base of tip commit of the remote-tracking +If set `--base=auto` in cmdline, it will automatically compute +the base commit as the merge base of tip commit of the remote-tracking branch and revision-range specified in cmdline. -For a local branch, you need to track a remote branch by `git branch +For a local branch, you need to make it to track a remote branch by `git branch --set-upstream-to` before using this option. EXAMPLES |