Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 5/3/22 12:51, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> The verbose report left by "git fetch" tells us what branch they >> have is used to update what branch we have, so I think this is >> pretty much expected. >> >> I am puzzled by your mention of 'net-next' (local). >> >> You may have >> >> [branch "net-next"] >> remote = net-next >> merge = master >> >> and that is where your expectation on the local may be coming from, >> but it wouldn't be all that relevant to "git fetch". The update of >> the local branch will happen long after "git fetch" is done. >> > > Ah I see. > > So the left-hand side of verbose report (local branch) is actually > the value of branch."net-next".merge, right? Not really. It comes from [remote "net-next"] remote = https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/net-next/* and the fact that the remote happens to have only one branch under its refs/heads/ hierarchy. Fetch does not care all that much about "branch.*.merge" (which is what I said---the configuration is not all that relevant to "git fetch").
