Jeff King wrote: > It also means that even without a remote, the merge option makes sense > (e.g., if I do repeated merges from one local branch to another). And it > means that it's _always_ correct for "checkout -b <new> <track>" to set > branch.<new>.merge to <track>, without having to worry about finding an > appropriate remote. Without remote (or rather with remote ".") remote branch names are the same as tracking branch names :-) -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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