# Re: \[PATCH\] MyFirstContribution: teach to use "format-patch --base=auto"

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-10-23 21:03:38 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/10/7906020
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/10/7906020/t.md

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Eric Sunshine [ref] writes:

> On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 2:43 AM Bagas Sanjaya [ref] wrote:
>> From: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
>>
>> 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.
```