Re: Default remote branch for local branch

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: 2006-04-03 17:56:07
Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> 
> Optionally, branching <new> off from <old> could add <new> as
> topic branch of <old>: Thus, if you are on <old> and do git-pull,
> you get <new> merged in.
> 

This is clearly insane. If I'm on <old> and want to sync with my 
upstream source that would be impossible without explicitly telling it 
*not* to merge with <new>. Iow, this change would (possibly) simplify 
for the one repo maintainer, but make things harder for the 30-odd 
developers.

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