Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] format-patch: introduce format.defaultTo

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 10:42:17 -0800

Ramkumar Ramachandra <[email-masked]> writes:

> A very common workflow for preparing patches involves working off a
> topic branch and generating patches against 'master' to send off to the
> maintainer. However, a plain
>
>   $ git format-patch -o outgoing
>
> is a no-op on a topic branch,...

Two points.

 - why is a single branch name sufficient?

 - is it a better option to simply default to @{u}, if one exists,
   instead of failing?