From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Fabien Terrani <terranifabien@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remote.<name>.merge missing from the git-config man page?
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 22:58:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6rd2tp8.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YEaRw5x5hnh9RRyM@nand.local> (Taylor Blau's message of "Mon, 8 Mar 2021 16:06:11 -0500")
On Mär 08 2021, Taylor Blau wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 09:57:56PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> The configured upstream is the value of branch.<name>.merge, isn't it?
>> That would be the name of a remote, not the name of a branch.
>
> Right; the '<name>' in 'branch.<name>.merge' is your local name for a
> branch, but the value of that configuration is the remote's name.
Sorry, I was misreading branch.<name>.merge as branch.<name>.remote.
Now it makes all sense to me.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-08 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-08 12:10 remote.<name>.merge missing from the git-config man page? Fabien Terrani
2021-03-08 16:57 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-08 17:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-08 18:43 ` Taylor Blau
2021-03-08 20:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-08 20:28 ` Taylor Blau
2021-03-08 20:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-08 20:45 ` Taylor Blau
2021-03-08 20:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-08 21:06 ` Taylor Blau
2021-03-08 21:58 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2021-03-12 23:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-13 7:59 ` Jonathan Nieder
2021-03-08 21:20 ` Junio C Hamano
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