Re: git-clone wrongly setting branch.*.merge ? (Was: [PATCH 2/3] Rebase to parent branch after git-fetch in "stg pull".)

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 3, 2007, 00:17 UTC
Message-ID: <eq0k8q$rih$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070202235655.GG5362@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net>

Yann Dirson wrote:

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> With current GIT HEAD, plain git-clone creates the following config
> (when cloning a repo with HEAD pointing to branch "downstream":
> 
> 
> [remote "origin"]
>         url = /export/work/yann/git/stgit/tmp/.git
>         fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
> [branch "downstream"]
>         remote = origin
>         merge = refs/heads/downstream
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> I would have expected "merge = remotes/origin/downstream" instead, and
> this setting confuses the rebase-after-pull logic, causing it to
> rebase the stack onto its own base (no-op).
> 
> Isn't that a git-clone bug ?

No, it is a feature. branch.<name>.merge is usually _remote_ head, to allow pulling without local tracking branch. IIRC there was patch to allow to use local head, if it is ambiguous.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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