Re: confusion over the new branch and merge config

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> > Obviously, the local names should matter more when you are doing
> > local operations. So if you are using mergeLocal to give a
> > shorthand to "git merge" that does not explicitly say what to
> > merge, the above discussion does not apply. But if that is the
> > case, mergeLocal should also not affect the selection of
> > branches to be merged when "git pull" happens from a remote
> > either.
>
> You can always use remote = ".", and then remote and local branches
> are the same...