Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt for clone's new default behavior
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:47
Luben Tuikov [off-list ref] writes:
quoted hunk
--- Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:quoted
Luben Tuikov [off-list ref] writes:quoted
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
Because [remote] is NOT about mapping. It asks the fetch mechanism to fetch from that remote, so the primary thing you should look at is .url, not RHS of colon on .fetch lines. Use of tracking branches is strictly optional.