Introduce --base=auto to record the base commit info automatically, the
base_commit will be the merge base of tip commit of the upstream branch
and revision-range specified in cmdline.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong...@intel.com>
---
 Documentation/git-format-patch.txt |  4 ++++
 builtin/log.c                      | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 t/t4014-format-patch.sh            | 14 ++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt 
b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index 2a4c293..8283eea 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -577,6 +577,10 @@ The submitter could 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
+branch and revision-range specified in cmdline.
+
 EXAMPLES
 --------
 
diff --git a/builtin/log.c b/builtin/log.c
index 73bc36d..510a427 100644
--- a/builtin/log.c
+++ b/builtin/log.c
@@ -1205,6 +1205,9 @@ static void prepare_bases(struct base_tree_info *bases,
        struct commit *base = NULL, *commit;
        struct rev_info revs;
        struct diff_options diffopt;
+       struct branch *curr_branch;
+       struct commit_list *base_list;
+       const char *upstream;
        unsigned char sha1[20];
        int i;
 
@@ -1212,10 +1215,31 @@ static void prepare_bases(struct base_tree_info *bases,
        DIFF_OPT_SET(&diffopt, RECURSIVE);
        diff_setup_done(&diffopt);
 
-       base = lookup_commit_reference_by_name(base_commit);
-       if (!base)
-               die(_("Unknown commit %s"), base_commit);
-       oidcpy(&bases->base_commit, &base->object.oid);
+       if (!strcmp(base_commit, "auto")) {
+               curr_branch = branch_get(NULL);
+               upstream = branch_get_upstream(curr_branch, NULL);
+               if (upstream) {
+                       if (get_sha1(upstream, sha1))
+                               die(_("Failed to resolve '%s' as a valid 
ref."), upstream);
+                       commit = lookup_commit_or_die(sha1, "upstream base");
+                       base_list = get_merge_bases_many(commit, total, list);
+                       /* There should be one and only one merge base. */
+                       if (!base_list || base_list->next)
+                               die(_("Could not find exact merge base."));
+                       base = base_list->item;
+                       free_commit_list(base_list);
+                       oidcpy(&bases->base_commit, &base->object.oid);
+               } else {
+                       die(_("Failed to get upstream, if you want to record 
base commit automatically,\n"
+                             "please use git branch --set-upstream-to to track 
a remote branch.\n"
+                             "Or you could specify base commit by 
--base=<base-commit-id> manually."));
+               }
+       } else {
+               base = lookup_commit_reference_by_name(base_commit);
+               if (!base)
+                       die(_("Unknown commit %s"), base_commit);
+               oidcpy(&bases->base_commit, &base->object.oid);
+       }
 
        init_revisions(&revs, NULL);
        revs.max_parents = 1;
diff --git a/t/t4014-format-patch.sh b/t/t4014-format-patch.sh
index a6ce727..4603915 100755
--- a/t/t4014-format-patch.sh
+++ b/t/t4014-format-patch.sh
@@ -1475,4 +1475,18 @@ test_expect_success 'format-patch --base error handling' 
'
        ! git format-patch --base=HEAD~ -3
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'format-patch --base=auto' '
+       git checkout -b new master &&
+       git branch --set-upstream-to=master &&
+       echo "A" >>file &&
+       git add file &&
+       git commit -m "New change #A" &&
+       echo "B" >>file &&
+       git add file &&
+       git commit -m "New change #B" &&
+       git format-patch --stdout --base=auto -2 >patch &&
+       grep -e "^base-commit:" patch >actual &&
+       echo "base-commit: $(git rev-parse master)" >expected &&
+       test_cmp expected actual
+'
 test_done
-- 
2.8.1.120.g24d6b3f

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