From: "Santi Béjar" <santi@agolina.net>
To: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Documentation: enhance branch.<name>.{remote,merge}
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:54:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adf1fd3d0903290354y7ac26542r8d82309a7247eacc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76718490903281838s1bc7e908l4702cf9ab020189@mail.gmail.com>
2009/3/29 Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net> wrote:
>> branch.<name>.merge::
>> + It defines, together with branch.<name>.remote, the tracking branch
>> + for the current branch. It tells 'git-fetch'/'git-pull' which
>> + branch to merge.
>
> I think it would be clearer to say "the upstream branch for the
> current branch", since
> it could very well be a local branch, not necessarily a remote tracking branch.
It makes sense, thanks.
Santi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-29 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-28 23:10 [PATCH 0/4] push.default and branch.<name>.{remote,merge} changes Santi Béjar
2009-03-28 23:10 ` [PATCH 1/4] Documentation: enhance branch.<name>.{remote,merge} Santi Béjar
2009-03-29 1:38 ` Jay Soffian
2009-03-29 10:54 ` Santi Béjar [this message]
2009-03-28 23:10 ` [PATCH 2/4] Documentation: push.default applies to all remotes Santi Béjar
2009-03-28 23:10 ` [PATCH 3/4] Documentation: branch.*.merge can also afect 'git-push' Santi Béjar
2009-03-28 23:10 ` [PATCH 4/4] Rename push.default to push.style Santi Béjar
2009-03-30 8:01 ` Finn Arne Gangstad
2009-03-30 8:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-30 9:00 ` Santi Béjar
2009-03-30 9:07 ` Santi Béjar
2009-03-30 10:29 ` Jeff King
2009-03-30 12:50 ` Santi Béjar
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