Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] merge: enable defaulttoupstream by default

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:53:50 -0700

Felipe Contreras <[email-masked]> writes:

> There's no point in this:
>
> % git merge
> fatal: No commit specified and merge.defaultToUpstream not set.
>
> We know the most likely scenario is that the user wants to merge the
> upstream, and if not, he can set merge.defaultToUpstream to false.

And a new possible failure case is when there is no upstream defined
for the current branch, which gets perfectly good new error message:

    $ git merge
    fatal: No remote for the current branch.

So I think this is good.  We want to protect this with a new test,
no?

Will queue as-is for now.

> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-merge.txt | 5 ++---
>  builtin/merge.c             | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
> index a3c1fa3..cf2c374 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
> @@ -101,9 +101,8 @@ commit or stash your changes before running 'git merge'.
>  	Specifying more than one commit will create a merge with
>  	more than two parents (affectionately called an Octopus merge).
>  +
> -If no commit is given from the command line, and if `merge.defaultToUpstream`
> -configuration variable is set, merge the remote-tracking branches
> -that the current branch is configured to use as its upstream.
> +If no commit is given from the command line, merge the remote-tracking
> +branches that the current branch is configured to use as its upstream.
>  See also the configuration section of this manual page.
>  
>  
> diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
> index 66d8843..1fc9319 100644
> --- a/builtin/merge.c
> +++ b/builtin/merge.c
> @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ static int verbosity;
>  static int allow_rerere_auto;
>  static int abort_current_merge;
>  static int show_progress = -1;
> -static int default_to_upstream;
> +static int default_to_upstream = 1;
>  static const char *sign_commit;
>  
>  static struct strategy all_strategy[] = {