From: Santi Béjar Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:10:01 GMT Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Documentation: enhance branch..{remote,merge} Message-ID: <1238281804-30290-2-git-send-email-santi@agolina.net> In-Reply-To: <1238281804-30290-1-git-send-email-santi@agolina.net> The documentation for branch.*.merge is very dense, so add a simple explanation on top of it. And branch.*.remote also afects 'git push'. Text taken from 'push.default'. Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar --- Documentation/config.txt | 8 ++++++-- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 089569a..56f0cd7 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -473,10 +473,14 @@ branch.autosetuprebase:: This option defaults to never. branch..remote:: - When in branch , it tells 'git-fetch' which remote to fetch. - If this option is not given, 'git-fetch' defaults to remote "origin". + When in branch , it tells 'git-fetch' and 'git-push' which + remote to fetch/push, and defaults to `origin` if no remote is + configured. `origin` is also used if you are not on any branch. branch..merge:: + It defines, together with branch..remote, the tracking branch + for the current branch. It tells 'git-fetch'/'git-pull' which + branch to merge. When in branch , it tells 'git-fetch' the default refspec to be marked for merging in FETCH_HEAD. The value is handled like the remote part of a refspec, and must match a -- 1.6.1.258.g7ff14