Quotes of the week - re: base-commit thing

Posted Feb 13, 2020 22:59 UTC (Thu) by Fowl (subscriber, #65667)
Parent article: Quotes of the week

Another day, another time I'm shocked at how leisurely git treats merges/actually ending up with a filesystem that someone has ever seen before/written.

Does 'format-patch' have a compatibility constraint against including the base commit by default?

Quotes of the week - re: base-commit thing

Posted Feb 15, 2020 21:06 UTC (Sat) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Eh, probably a transitional thing, just like lots of other options which improve usage when set. format.useAutoBase exists and I set it once I became aware of it, so I'm good personally. But changing its default could probably be discussed.