Documentation: enhance branch.<name>.{remote,merge}

The documentation for branch.*.merge is very dense, so add a simple
explanation on top of it.

And branch.*.remote also affects 'git push'.

Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Santi Béjar 2009-03-30 12:11:40 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -473,10 +473,14 @@ branch.autosetuprebase::
This option defaults to never.
branch.<name>.remote::
When in branch <name>, it tells 'git-fetch' which remote to fetch.
If this option is not given, 'git-fetch' defaults to remote "origin".
When in branch <name>, it tells 'git-fetch' and 'git-push' which
remote to fetch from/push to. It defaults to `origin` if no remote is
configured. `origin` is also used if you are not on any branch.
branch.<name>.merge::
Defines, together with branch.<name>.remote, the upstream branch
for the given branch. It tells 'git-fetch'/'git-pull' which
branch to merge from.
When in branch <name>, it tells 'git-fetch' the default
refspec to be marked for merging in FETCH_HEAD. The value is
handled like the remote part of a refspec, and must match a