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Refer to branch.<name>.remote/merge when documenting --track

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Make it easier for readers to find the actual config variables that
implement the "upstream" relationship.

Suggested-by: Per Cederqvist <cederp@opera.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Johan Herland 2013-09-08 22:58:13 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ working tree to it; use "git checkout <newbranch>" to switch to the
new branch.
When a local branch is started off a remote-tracking branch, Git sets up the
branch so that 'git pull' will appropriately merge from
branch (specifically the `branch.<name>.remote` and `branch.<name>.merge`
configuration entries) so that 'git pull' will appropriately merge from
the remote-tracking branch. This behavior may be changed via the global
`branch.autosetupmerge` configuration flag. That setting can be
overridden by using the `--track` and `--no-track` options, and
@ -156,7 +157,8 @@ This option is only applicable in non-verbose mode.
-t::
--track::
When creating a new branch, set up configuration to mark the
When creating a new branch, set up `branch.<name>.remote` and
`branch.<name>.merge` configuration entries to mark the
start-point branch as "upstream" from the new branch. This
configuration will tell git to show the relationship between the
two branches in `git status` and `git branch -v`. Furthermore,