From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: confusion over the new branch and merge config
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:29:57 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612230028360.18171@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061223051210.GA29814@segfault.peff.net>
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Jeff King wrote:
> BTW, is there some explanation why branch.*.merge specifies a _remote_
> head? The following would make much more sense to me:
>
> [branch "master"]
> remote = origin
> merge = refs/remotes/origin/master
>
> Because I don't _care_ that the other guy calls it refs/heads/master. I
> care that I'm pulling from refs/remotes/origin/master on my end (and
> however I get stuff into that branch is defined by the remote).
Exactly the point I'm trying to make !
I'm glad I'm not alone to come to this conclusion.
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-23 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-21 22:17 confusion over the new branch and merge config Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-21 23:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-21 23:21 ` Sean
2006-12-22 0:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-22 0:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-22 1:01 ` Sean
2006-12-22 8:31 ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-22 7:50 ` Alan Chandler
2006-12-22 8:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-22 8:39 ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-22 15:25 ` Alan Chandler
2006-12-22 20:49 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-22 21:04 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-22 21:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-22 22:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-22 23:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-23 3:10 ` Tom Prince
2006-12-23 5:11 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-23 5:12 ` Jeff King
2006-12-23 5:29 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2006-12-23 6:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-23 6:22 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-12-23 6:28 ` Jeff King
2006-12-23 7:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-23 7:25 ` Jeff King
2006-12-23 9:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-23 10:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-23 15:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-23 22:48 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-24 6:15 ` Jeff King
2006-12-24 20:49 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-26 7:33 ` Jeff King
2007-01-02 14:49 ` Jeff King
2007-01-02 17:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02 17:34 ` Jeff King
2007-01-02 20:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02 20:30 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-03 0:24 ` Santi Béjar
2007-01-03 23:02 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-09 15:05 ` Jeff King
2007-01-09 16:18 ` Jeff King
2006-12-23 8:31 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-22 8:41 ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-22 9:39 ` Lars Hjemli
2006-12-22 15:10 ` Nicolas Pitre
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