From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 21:06:11 GMT
Subject: Re: remote.<name>.merge missing from the git-config man page?
Message-ID: <YEaRw5x5hnh9RRyM@nand.local>
In-Reply-To: <87h7ll2wiz.fsf@igel.home>

On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 09:57:56PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> The configured upstream is the value of branch.<name>.merge, isn't it?
> That would be the name of a remote, not the name of a branch.

Right; the '<name>' in 'branch.<name>.merge' is your local name for a
branch, but the value of that configuration is the remote's name.

> Andreas.

Thanks,
Taylor