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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: format-patch: don't use origin as a branch name
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 12:36:14 -0700
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Philip Oakley wrote:

> Historically (5 Nov 2005 v0.99.9-46-g28ffb89) the git-format-patch used
> 'origin' as the upstream branch name. This is now used to name the remote.
> Use the more modern 'master' as the branch name.

Would 'origin/master' make sense?

Thanks,
Jonathan