Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 01:08:02PM +0200, Santi Béjar wrote: > >> I've noticed that having branch.<branch>.merge set with the branch >> name, and not with the full ref, cause problems with >> --format='%(upstream)' and also with the "branch -av" and "git >> status" upstream branch outputs. But git-fetch and git-pull works ok, >> so it is a valid setting. > > Actually, it is broken in a lot of places. for-each-ref relies on the > same code as "git status", "git checkout", etc, which will all fail to > display tracking info. I believe the same code is also used for updating > tracking branches on push. So I'm not sure if it was ever intended to be > a valid setting. It wasn't. Some places may accept them gracefully by either being extra nice or by accident. -- To unsubscribe from this 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