Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Having said that, I think we _could_ do this. >> >> If you (or other people) use branch.*.merge, with its value set >> to remote name _and_ local name, and actually verify that either >> form works without confusion, please report back and I'll apply. > > I do not claim to understand your patch (I have no idea if || or && is > stronger in shell), but here is another proposition: if the config > variable starts with "refs/remotes/", assume it is local. Why? You can track another repository tracking branches, using it as a kind of proxy repository, even if it is not bare... -- 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