From: Ian Kelling <ian@iankelling.org>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Subject: Re: How to watch a mailing list & repo for patches which affect a certain area of code?
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:49:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1476132560.1716398.751654049.5C8CC9EA@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kb2HWmaW3XpfHRj8vcOStPoQmR_NZe7RCRhw=FnnHbZ8A@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016, at 12:08 PM, Stefan Beller wrote:
> Well it is found in 2.9 and later. Currently the base footer is
> opt-in, e.g. you'd
> need to convince people to run `git config format.useAutoBase true` or to
> manually add the base to the patch via `format-patch --base=<commit>`.
Nice. Another useful config option this lead me to find is git config
--global branch.autoSetupMerge always which sets up the remote for local
branches, allowing useAutoBase to work for them without extra typing
(according to the man page, I haven't tried it yet).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-10 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-09 19:03 How to watch a mailing list & repo for patches which affect a certain area of code? Ian Kelling
2016-10-09 21:26 ` Jason Pyeron
2016-10-10 18:42 ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-10 18:56 ` Jason Pyeron
2016-10-10 19:08 ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-10 19:40 ` How to watch a mailing list & repo for patches which affect a certain area of code? [OT] Jason Pyeron
2016-10-10 20:49 ` Ian Kelling [this message]
2016-10-10 15:11 ` How to watch a mailing list & repo for patches which affect a certain area of code? Eric Wong
2016-10-10 18:10 ` Jakub Narębski
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