On Mon, Oct 10, 2016, at 12:08 PM, Stefan Beller wrote: > Well it is found in 2.9 and later. Currently the base footer is > opt-in, e.g. you'd > need to convince people to run `git config format.useAutoBase true` or to > manually add the base to the patch via `format-patch --base=<commit>`.
Nice. Another useful config option this lead me to find is git config --global branch.autoSetupMerge always which sets up the remote for local branches, allowing useAutoBase to work for them without extra typing (according to the man page, I haven't tried it yet).
