On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Jeff King wrote: > BTW, is there some explanation why branch.*.merge specifies a _remote_ > head? The following would make much more sense to me: > > [branch "master"] > remote = origin > merge = refs/remotes/origin/master > > Because I don't _care_ that the other guy calls it refs/heads/master. I > care that I'm pulling from refs/remotes/origin/master on my end (and > however I get stuff into that branch is defined by the remote). Exactly the point I'm trying to make ! I'm glad I'm not alone to come to this conclusion. Nicolas - 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