The earlier documentation made vague references to "is set to build
on". Flesh that out with references to the config settings, so folks
can use git-config(1) to get more detail on what @{upstream} means.
For example, @{upstream} does not care about remote.pushdefault or
branch.<name>.pushremote.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/revisions.txt | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index 5a286d0..0796118 100644
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -94,7 +94,9 @@ some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8.
'<branchname>@\{upstream\}', e.g. 'master@\{upstream\}', '@\{u\}'::
The suffix '@\{upstream\}' to a branchname (short form '<branchname>@\{u\}')
refers to the branch that the branch specified by branchname is set to build on
- top of. A missing branchname defaults to the current one.
+ top of (configured with `branch.<name>.remote` and
+ `branch.<name>.merge`). A missing branchname defaults to the
+ current one.
'<rev>{caret}', e.g. 'HEAD{caret}, v1.5.1{caret}0'::
A suffix '{caret}' to a revision parameter means the first parent of
--
1.9.1.353.gc66d89d
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