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authorJiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>2021-11-04 08:34:15 +0800
committerJiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>2021-11-04 08:34:15 +0800
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Merge branch 'master' of github.com:git/git
* 'master' of github.com:git/git: Git 2.34-rc1 rebase -i: fix rewording with --committer-date-is-author-date dir: fix directory-matching bug gpg-interface: avoid buffer overrun in parse_ssh_output() gpg-interface: handle missing " with " gracefully in parse_ssh_output() A few more topics before -rc1 i18n: fix typos found during l10n for git 2.34.0 t5310: drop lib-bundle.sh include format-patch (doc): clarify --base=auto gc: perform incremental repack when implictly enabled fsck: verify multi-pack-index when implictly enabled fsck: verify commit graph when implicitly enabled grep/pcre2: fix an edge case concerning ascii patterns and UTF-8 data commit-graph: don't consider "replace" objects with "verify" commit-graph tests: fix another graph_git_two_modes() helper commit-graph tests: fix error-hiding graph_git_two_modes() helper pretty: colorize pattern matches in commit messages grep: refactor next_match() and match_one_pattern() for external use
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@@ -689,10 +689,10 @@ 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
+If set `--base=auto` in cmdline, it will automatically compute
+the base commit as 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
+For a local branch, you need to make it to track a remote branch by `git branch
--set-upstream-to` before using this option.
EXAMPLES