Re: [PATCH] push.default: Rename 'tracking' to 'upstream'

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote:

As to its value being what the other end calls the source, I think it is
not a good idea to change it, and it is even a worse idea to add a new
configuration variable that points into the tracking branches on our side.
@{upstream} is a short-hand notation to call the tracking branch of the
"upstream" we have been discussing, and has to point at refs/remotes/
hierarchy, but the entire point of the notation is that the users do not
have to see/type "refs/remotes/" when they say

    $ git merge @{upstream}

but at the level of an end-user's world-view, his branch that was forked
from origin's "master" integrates with origin's "master", and the use of
an intermediary, the refs/remotes/origin/master remote tracking branch
that is kept on the local side, is a mere implementation detail.