From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 12:26:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fetch: add new fetch.default configuration
Message-ID: <CALkWK0=poS43aGYuMzEP9K7e0P0khFRnzQxihtgAvh3rtb9Mdw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s1rV+Pe_58qZLvTDt-r7XkDAinh3npY-dr+W5vnfNk4NA@mail.gmail.com>

My itch is very simple.

Felipe Contreras wrote:
> % git checkout fc/remote/hg-next
> % git rebase -i # rebase to master

% git pull # I want: pull from origin

> % git checkout fc/remote/hg-notes
> % git rebase -i # rebase to fc/remote/hg-next

% git pull # I want: pull from ram

> % git checkout fc/remote/hg-gitifyhg-compat
> % git rebase -i # rebase to fc/remote/hg-notes

% git pull # I want: pull from felipe

With your series, rebase works and I like that.  But, by specifying
branch.<name>.remote as '.', I've essentially lost a way to specify a
remote I want.  Why can't I have both?