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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt for clone's new default behavior
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:22:14 +0100
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Luben Tuikov wrote:

> --- Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Then why does it point to the _remote_ mapping?  One shouldn't
> care what it is, and how it looks in the remote repo.  That is
> handled by [remote].  In [branch] I shouldn't have to have any
> absolute references, i.e. branch.<name>.remote points to [remote],
> and branch.<name>.merge should only give a _branch_ name,
> whose remote-to-local mapping (which preserves the branch name)
> can be found by dereferencing branch.<name>.remote to get to
> remote.<rname>.fetch.

Once again: if you _don't_ have _local_ tracking branch, so you _must_
use _remote_ name.

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Jakub Narebski
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