From 958bc01404cc6213c30cdbad253fa82b55daeec2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim@guixotic.coop>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:50:11 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] gitconfig: Relax useAutoBase.

It can be useful to produce patches from older commits, for example to share
commits from the keyring branch between the main Guix repository and
guix-maintenance. The previous 'true' value prevented that with a fatal error
message.

* etc/git/gitconfig [format] <useAutoBase>: Set to whenAble.

Change-Id: Ib32407dd3695dcadcb16855b1b87147fabc2aca7
---
 etc/git/gitconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/etc/git/gitconfig b/etc/git/gitconfig
index 9c7827ced2b..4dc2f696062 100644
--- a/etc/git/gitconfig
+++ b/etc/git/gitconfig
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 [format]
         forceinbodyfrom = true  # help preserve commit authorship
         thread = shallow
-        useAutoBase = true
+        useAutoBase = whenAble
 
 [pull]
         rebase = true