What does it mean to have multiple upstream tracking branches?

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 Hi,

In my recent attempt to create a "simple" branch.autosetupmerge
option, I have repeatedly been confused by the enforced rules around
what is and isn't valid for the branch.<name>.merge and
branch.<name>.remote configs.

Until Josh Steadman's recent work on --track=inherit, the "automatic"
addition of branch.<name>.merge could only ever result in a single
entry.

Now we support multiple entries being added as a perpetuation of an
existing branch's setup - but what does it *mean*? I could understand
if the idea was to have transparent tracking across multiple remotes
that are supposed to have the same content (eg a single server set up
over multiple protocols), but that does not appear to be possible -
branch.<name>.remote can only have one value.

Is there any documentation (or could someone provide pointers) as to
when multiple branch.<name>.merge values can make sense and what that
means / what it does?

Thanks,
Tao



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