Re: cant get git to work over http

From: Anatoly Yakovenko <aeyakovenko@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 19, 2008, 19:06 UTC
Message-ID: <e26d18e40802191106v51c907bdn6aa51acef5f530a3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <47BB1EC0.601@freescale.com>

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> > If you often merge with the same branch, you may want to
> > configure the following variables in your configuration
> > file:
> >
> >     branch.master.remote = <nickname>
> >     branch.master.merge = <remote-ref>
> >     remote.<nickname>.url = <url>
> >     remote.<nickname>.fetch = <refspec>
> >
> > See git-config(1) for details
>
> Did you follow this advice?  You've set up the
> origin's URL now, and so it knows from where the
> fetch step will happen, but have you set up the
> merge step yet?  Does it know what branches to
> merge on that pull request?

i dont understand what these values should be.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
 doesn't mention anything about configuring them.  So why cant i have
git working the same way over http as it does over ssh and the
filesystem?