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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 6 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index fe2f69d36e..113eabc107 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/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 |