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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: git format-patch with useAutoBase = true
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Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:

> $  git format-patch -1 f7529b4ba3c98470b0e367ba447ad0da84dc308
> fatal: base commit shouldn't be in revision list
> ...
> The failure occurs because the "automatic" base is newer than the
> requested commit. I am wondering if it would make sense to relax this
> restriction and make the format-patch automatically disable
> useAutoBase if it would conflict like this?

I agree that it does make a horrible end-user experience to die with
the message like the above, trying to use a nonsense autobase.