Junio C Hamano wrote: > - why is a single branch name sufficient? It does accept a <revision>, so any form is allowed; but why would anyone want that in a format.defaultTo? I'm not sure we want to impose an artificial restriction on the configuration variable though. > - is it a better option to simply default to @{u}, if one exists, > instead of failing? I'm not sure @{u} is a good default. Personally, my workflow involves publishing my fork before sending out patches; mainly so that I can compare with @{u} when I do re-spins. People can put @{u} in format.defaultTo if it suits their workflow though. -- 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