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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: confusion over the new branch and merge config
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Jeff King wrote:

> It also means that even without a remote, the merge option makes sense
> (e.g., if I do repeated merges from one local branch to another). And it
> means that it's _always_ correct for "checkout -b <new> <track>" to set
> branch.<new>.merge to <track>, without having to worry about finding an
> appropriate remote.

Without remote (or rather with remote ".") remote branch names are the same
as tracking branch names :-)
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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