On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 02:58:44PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 06:50:49PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:42:01AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > Ah, indeed I think that is exactly what I'm looking for!  Sadly it is
> > not documented in the git format-patch man page so I hadn't seen it,

> So if we use this, should we set the --base to be a linux-next tag?

> Is that reliable enough?

> Can't relly use Linus's tree, and if people randomly choose their
> upstream's then it defeats the whole point :(

Personally I'd just not bother specifying a base if it's -next or
there's platform enablement stuff in there - I do send a bunch of stuff
that's based off directly off a rc or something in a maintainer's tree
so for me it's quite useful.