From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:27:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] branch.autosetupmerge: allow boolean values, or "all"
Message-ID: <7vhcoexqeh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <46919692.5020708@gnu.org>

Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> writes:

> 	> Having prepared the patch below, I do not think if the original
>> patch even wanted to have 'all' semantics.  The surrounding text
>> only talks about "off a remote branch" and I strongly suspect
>> that nobody wanted to do this for a local branch case at all.
>
> If I remember correctly, the problem was that you are not sure that
> remote branches are in refs/remotes.

Yes, the user can use traditional layout (e.g. refs/heads/origin
is used as a remote tracking branch).

So the check with refs/remotes/ is not technically correct, but
it should probably look-up the configuration to check the
tracking, if we really want to be strict about it.

I personally do not care too much about it, though.