Re: git pull and merging.

On Thursday 07 December 2006 20:06, you wrote:

Once you place something like "branch.*.merge" in configuration
file (either $GIT_DIR/config, or a $GIT_DIR/remotes/* file), you
are talking about other repositories you regularly interact
with, so it might be probably Ok to require the user to use a
tracking branch if he wants the convenience of "branch.*.merge",
and make its value name the local tracking branch instead of the
remote branch.

But that means I would never be able to benefit from the
convenience of "branch.*.merge";

Hmm... that's true; actually, I did not thought about people
which do not want to have any tracking branches (again!). So

[remote "repo"]
  url = ...
  fetch = branch1
  fetch = branch2

[branch "mybranch1"]
  remote = repo
  merge = branch1

actually looks fine, and is the only possible way.
But still, this does not work. You have to specify

  merge = refs/heads/branch1

That's confusing (perhaps I can come up with a patch
to allow "branch1" alone).

So probably the best way is to write some more detailed
explanation into the docu ...