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Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> writes:

> Questions:
>
> What is the reasonining of defining branch.<name>.merge to point
> to the "remote's setup"?

See list archives.  

Because you are not required to use remote tracking branches.
By the way, I think we allow the name of the remote tracking
branch as well, but we do not advertise it -- always using
remote's name consistently is much less confusing.

> The reasoning is that the remote's setup should only leak into
> [remote] and no further.  I.e. [remote] is the only one concerned
> with the mapping between the remote repo and the local repo.

No.  Remote is not about mapping -- if mapping is there you can
talk about it, but that is optional.