Re: Git branching & pulling

Because git does not know what to merge; there is no config entry
for "branch.test.merge", as the warning says. How would you reword
this warning to make it easier to understand?
But from your question, I assume that you expected git to have a
"branch.test.merge" setting.
What do you expect it to do? And why?

Is my assumption correct that you want the last command to be equivalent
to "git-pull . master"? And my further assumption, that you want this
because you expect "git pull" to default to merging changes from its
upstream (also when the upstream is local)?

Yes, as you said below that was the old behavior and besides when
the branch was created git was told what the upstream was it seems
reasonable that it remember that. When I clone a remote it does the
right thing it would seem when I make a branch it would behave
the same.

Creation of a branch from another local one never has created
"branch.x.remote" or "branch.x.merge" entries. I am not even sure
that setting "branch.x.remote" to "." is working in the current version.

I tired to create the appropriate entries and it didn't work,
but maybe operator error.

BTW: There was some old behavior of "git pull" to always pull the master
branch from remote "origin" without any further parameters. I suppose that
you did not want this to happen in your example above ?!

I expected it to pull from its upstream (i.e. the branches parent).

Wink