Santi Béjar <sbejar@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > It extracts all the information for pull from the config file. > > If you have a config file as: > > [branch "master"] > remote=origin > merge=next #the remote name > octopus=octopus > twohead=recursive > > When doing a "git pull" without extra parameters in the master branch > it will fetch the origin remote repository and will merge the next > branch (the remote name). > > And you can also put the equivalent of the pull.{octopus,twohead} > options for each branch. > > This only changes the behavour when these keys exist and when > git-pull is used without extra parameters. > > Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@xxxxxxxxx> I am in general in agreement with this line of thought and had an impression that many on the list wanted to have per-branch configuration. I am a bit too tired now so I'd just let you know I am interested but would not apply it tonight. Opinions? Comments? Anything missing or objectionable on Santi's patch from the list? - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html