Unhelpful "branch.master.remote = <nickname>" advice?

Hi,

git pull -r*) URL says:

    If you often merge with the same branch, you may want to
    configure the following variables in your configuration
    file:

        branch.master.remote = <nickname>
        branch.master.merge = <remote-ref>
        remote.<nickname>.url = <url>
        remote.<nickname>.fetch = <refspec>

and after cut-and-pasting that into .git/config, replacing
<foo> with values, I get

    $ git pull -r http://github.com/../../master
    fatal: bad config file line 17 in .git/config

where line 17 is [without any indentation]

    branch.master.remote = eddy

This is with git version version 1.6.3.3

Greetings,
Jan.  -- who just finds out the uninstall target is missing?!?
	 See attached.

*) I've been wondering why GIT lacks a "update", ie
   pull-without-merge command.  You almost never want
   to git pull /without/ -r?

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