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Rephrase the description of "format-patch --base=auto".

* jc/doc-format-patch-clarify-auto-base:
  format-patch (doc): clarify --base=auto
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Junio C Hamano
2021-11-01 13:48:08 -07:00
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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.
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