format-patch: introduce format.useAutoBase configuration

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 2cd6bdd7d2bc2816c1a9aed1c6a26bbd3285777c..fb31ae5b3ccf8139e510247b9af6adcde51a38eb 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1258,6 +1258,10 @@ format.outputDirectory::
        Set a custom directory to store the resulting files instead of the
        current working directory.
 
+format.useAutoBase::
+       A boolean value which lets you enable the `--base=auto` option of
+       format-patch by default.
+
 filter.<driver>.clean::
        The command which is used to convert the content of a worktree
        file to a blob upon checkin.  See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for