From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, 4th version] git-branch: register where to merge from,
 when branching off a remote branch
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:15:59 +0100
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> IOW, my point is that branching should write the information it _knows_
> into the config: branch X was branched from branch Y. It should be up to
> the programs to _use_ that information in a reasonable way. As it is
> now, this patch makes the decision about how to use the information at
> the time of branching, which seems to be the source of a lot of objects.

The problem is that this will pollute the configuration file a lot.  I'm starting to wonder if all this branch information really belongs in .git/config at all.

Paolo