From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB735C433F5 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2021 21:03:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F63360F36 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2021 21:03:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230444AbhJWVF5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2021 17:05:57 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com ([64.147.108.71]:64587 "EHLO pb-smtp2.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230280AbhJWVF4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2021 17:05:56 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4F77E95E6; Sat, 23 Oct 2021 17:03:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=barvtHiUcZvr/IAFUrZhiO63zx28jmYXUNGkwC 3KkwQ=; b=Y0tnB7smKMF/mDzV5bZ8cmIkmZ1zEuV8xrUSn4nJIs9i5uXbcoVPdU 3G9VAqnMDCYMpaozWeVtqBAxVm3adNh51aEnxix/JJYoIKdCP1KLW1E1e2lAUCFy kC8/5KX3ObXkAml/lhsXNAth4/xqGQGN0t5TfG6SyQdubr0tm5tN4= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C36EE95E4; Sat, 23 Oct 2021 17:03:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.133.2.91]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1193CE95E3; Sat, 23 Oct 2021 17:03:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Eric Sunshine Cc: Bagas Sanjaya , Git List , =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason , Glen Choo Subject: Re: [PATCH] MyFirstContribution: teach to use "format-patch --base=auto" References: <20211022064044.28761-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 14:03:35 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Eric Sunshine's message of "Fri, 22 Oct 2021 02:48:02 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: B03DF722-3444-11EC-9A07-CD991BBA3BAF-77302942!pb-smtp2.pobox.com Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Eric Sunshine writes: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 2:43 AM Bagas Sanjaya wrote: >> From: Junio C Hamano >> >> 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 branch.autosetupmerge by >> default records the upstream when the psuh branch was created, we >> can use --base=auto for this. Also, mention to the readers that the >> 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. > > s/bulletted/bulleted/ Thanks; will fix locally.