On Mär 08 2021, Taylor Blau wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 09:57:56PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> The configured upstream is the value of branch.<name>.merge, isn't it? >> That would be the name of a remote, not the name of a branch. > > Right; the '<name>' in 'branch.<name>.merge' is your local name for a > branch, but the value of that configuration is the remote's name. Sorry, I was misreading branch.<name>.merge as branch.<name>.remote. Now it makes all sense to me. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."