From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:18:49 +0000 (UTC)
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds <at> linux-foundation.org> writes:

> Forget about "branch.mybranch.url". It has no meaning. It's not what you 
> are supposed to ever use as a human (it's purely for scripting). It's not 
> worth even thinking about.
> 
> 			Linus

But it's hard to forget about it when the 'git pull' error
message that begins with "You asked me to pull without ..."
mentions these specifically:
  branch.${curr_branch}.remote = <nickname>"
  branch.${curr_branch}.merge = <remote-ref>"
  remote.<nickname>.url = <url>"
  remote.<nickname>.fetch = <refspec>"

It seems to me it would be much more helpful if that message
gave some sample git config command lines rather than the
resulting "scripting-only" names.

- Eric