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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] format-patch: introduce branch.*.forkedFrom
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> I do not mind allowing laziness by defaulting to something, but I am
>> not enthused by an approach that adds the new variable whose value
>> is questionable.  The description does not justify at all why
>> @{upstream} is not a good default (unless the workflow is screwed up
>> and @{upstream} is set to point at somewhere that is _not_ a true
>> upstream, that is).
>
> Did you find the explanation I gave in
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/240077
> reasonable?

No.