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diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 1d790f1af5..bdeecd59e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -575,6 +575,12 @@ 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 +branch and revision-range specified in cmdline. +For a local branch, you need to track a remote branch by `git branch +--set-upstream-to` before using this option. + EXAMPLES -------- |