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Subject: Re: Re* [PATCH v3] Documentation: specify base point when generating
 MyFirstContribution patchset
To:     Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 4:09 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] MyFirstContribution: teach to use "format-patch --base=auto"
>
> Let's encourage first-time contributors to tell us what commit they
> based their work with the format-patch invocation.  As the example
> already forks from origin/master and by branch.autosetupmerge by

I think you meant: s/and by/and/

> default records the upstream when the psuh branch was created, we
> can use --base=auto for this.  Also, mention the readers that the

s/the readers/to readers/

> range of commits can simply be given with `@{u}` if they are on the
> `psuh` branch already.
>
> As we are getting one more option on the command line, and spending
> one paragraph each to explain them, let's reformat that part of the
> description as a bulletted list.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>