Re: defaults for where to merge from

As is an option to disable the feature. I.e. for scripts, which create 
branches
blindly, without knowing they working on a remote branch.
So, please, provide an option to do what git-checkout/git-branch did 
before:
which is just create the branch, nothing more.

This does create the branch and nothing more.  It sets up "git pull" to 
do the obvious thing, but does not do anything more.  The branch is left 
in the same state than without the patch.  So the scripts will still 
work unless they create branches blindly, and blindly do a "git pull" 
expecting it to do the unobvious thing.

Paolo