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| author | Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye@intel.com> | 2016-04-26 15:51:23 +0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-04-26 10:51:50 -0700 |
| commit | 3de665175f3433ccd1dadd4d5d09fa9553948e55 (patch) | |
| tree | 41b30294951a8a74f3aa46daed76ee1594b9feee /Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | |
| parent | fa2ab86d18f16ab5e6d2f2cd6e8cc00460bada17 (diff) | |
| download | git-3de665175f3433ccd1dadd4d5d09fa9553948e55.tar.gz | |
format-patch: introduce --base=auto option
Introduce --base=auto to record the base commit info automatically, the
base_commit will be the merge base of tip commit of the upstream branch
and revision-range specified in cmdline.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-format-patch.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 1d790f1af5..bdeecd59e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -575,6 +575,12 @@ 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 +branch and revision-range specified in cmdline. +For a local branch, you need to track a remote branch by `git branch +--set-upstream-to` before using this option. + EXAMPLES -------- |