From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E086220989 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 20:49:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751969AbcJJUtW (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:49:22 -0400 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:55536 "EHLO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751537AbcJJUtV (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:49:21 -0400 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53BF420A22; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:49:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:49:20 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=iankelling.org; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=e5gCv/zrfdXZwoHDT3xcnLoqOww=; b=CiDRtP JhY/Srmy1yVCwUvnuiTsQFrD970fXsPL3mXvbvyetWtVbUnv9AQO43xXyUrxGgJJ 4CndJ2KGnU2qAPsyPEQcBNYmhAZZcB0OiQ+OMe2u+2BlaS/cx037cOITg1btQ2mT 2y2B+NjSK0ta/CsLSzcV/zQFl12ITn6kBfez8= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=e5gCv/zrfdXZwoH DT3xcnLoqOww=; b=FFJavddfzY8cuh1OlRWKJw/boUWRV9tgRc8wm6gs6Wy3d8y ypUc8ZF8vGcRiBOO9AmY0CwdC61wWt8TtTPIjRUT6/ZK+3kZ3ikg+EFvhd200SIu zPZZWri9hy238XsCJkvsOMT9+WCC9rkQyujDBo7dK6+Gqk8iyTSimErsN0Uc= Received: by mailuser.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id 283EA2EC7E; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:49:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1476132560.1716398.751654049.5C8CC9EA@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: 5jufFrNd7JVoRBt/v+vQPefciIVdBbmkLCPiz8bqZ+Tw 1476132560 From: Ian Kelling To: Stefan Beller , git@vger.kernel.org, Xiaolong Ye MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-cdbff290 In-Reply-To: References: <1476039798.3060702.750483225.1DE6C48B@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4B3747D8D2724E98B6AC000FE4072A09@black7> 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 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org 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=`. 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).