Subject: Re: [PATCH, 4th version] git-branch: register where to merge from, when branching off a remote branch

From: Paolo Bonzini <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:15:59 +0100

> IOW, my point is that branching should write the information it _knows_
> into the config: branch X was branched from branch Y. It should be up to
> the programs to _use_ that information in a reasonable way. As it is
> now, this patch makes the decision about how to use the information at
> the time of branching, which seems to be the source of a lot of objects.

The problem is that this will pollute the configuration file a lot.  I'm starting to wonder if all this branch information really belongs in .git/config at all.

Paolo