On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 12:06:51PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Unless you set @{u} to this new configuration, in which case the
>> choice becomes dynamic depending on the current branch, but
>>
>> - if that is the only sane choice based on the current branch, why
>> not use that as the default without having to set the
>> configuration?
>>
>> - Or if that is still insufficient, don't we need branch.*.forkedFrom
>> that is different from branch.*.merge, so that different branches
>> you want to show "format-patch" output can have different
>> reference points?
>
> Yeah, I had similar thoughts. I personally use "branch.*.merge" as
> "forkedFrom", and it seems like we are going that way anyway with things
> like "git rebase" and "git merge" defaulting to upstream. But then there
> is "git push -u" and "push.default = upstream", which treats the
> upstream config as something else entirely.
Just for more reference, I rarely use "branch.*.merge" as
"forkedFrom". I typically want to use master as my target, but like
Ram, I publish my changes elsewhere for safe keeping. I think in a
typical, feature branch-based workflow @{u} would be nearly useless.
-John
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