Re: [PATCH, 4th version] git-branch: register where to merge from, when branching off a remote branch

IOW, my point is that branching should write the information it _knows_
into the config: branch X was branched from branch Y. It should be up to
the programs to _use_ that information in a reasonable way. As it is
now, this patch makes the decision about how to use the information at
the time of branching, which seems to be the source of a lot of objects.

The problem is that this will pollute the configuration file a lot.  I'm starting to wonder if all this branch information really belongs in .git/config at all.

Paolo