Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt for clone's new default behavior

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:30:38 -0800

Luben Tuikov <[email-masked]> writes:

> --- Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Luben Tuikov <[email-masked]> writes:
>> 
>> > Questions:
>> >
>> > What is the reasonining of defining branch.<name>.merge to point
>> > to the "remote's setup"?
>> 
>> See list archives.  
>> 
>> Because you are not required to use remote tracking branches.
>
> Then why does it point to the _remote_ mapping?  One shouldn't

Because [remote] is NOT about mapping.  It asks the fetch
mechanism to fetch from that remote, so the primary thing you
should look at is .url, not RHS of colon on .fetch lines.  Use
of tracking branches is strictly optional.