Re: confusion over the new branch and merge config

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On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:49:50PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> What would be nice as well is to be able to provide only the _name_ of 
> the tracking branch without the refs/remotes/$origin/ prefix.  Since 
> there is already a 'branch."blah".remote = $origin' entry, then having 
> 'branch."blah".merge = $foo' could mean "refs/remotes/$origin/$foo" when 
> $foo contains no slash.

NAK. That makes branch names like "jc/foo" second-class citizens. You
would do better to say "entries without refs/ are implicitly local refs
in refs/remotes/".

-Peff
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