From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 20:40:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] format-patch: introduce branch.*.forkedFrom
Message-ID: <CALkWK0=vXGiHbd__ZNfp42fRS_gK5MNmYx13=uzDfc0m==V5Fw@mail.gmail.com>
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I do not mind allowing laziness by defaulting to something, but I am
> not enthused by an approach that adds the new variable whose value
> is questionable.  The description does not justify at all why
> @{upstream} is not a good default (unless the workflow is screwed up
> and @{upstream} is set to point at somewhere that is _not_ a true
> upstream, that is).

Did you find the explanation I gave in
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/240077
reasonable? I don't know why label the respin-workflow as being
"screwed up".