Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> writes: > git checkout origin/master > # toy around, do stuff > git checkout -b new-shiny-feature > git format-patch origin-master.. > > Now I have set the format.useautobase option and then the `git format-patch` > fails with > > fatal: Failed to get upstream, if you want to record base commit > automatically, > please use git branch --set-upstream-to to track a remote branch. > Or you could specify base commit by --base=<base-commit-id> manually. > > but as I indicated I want patches from origin/master onwards, > Could we make use of that information?
As you indicated where other than in this e-mail? I think the way for you to indicate that desire expected by this series is to use "git branch" to set upstream of new-shiny-feature branch to origin/master. Shouldn't that work, or is that too much work? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
