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authorW. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>2014-05-13 11:46:57 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-05-13 12:35:00 -0700
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Documentation: mention config sources for @{upstream}wk/doc-clarify-upstream
The earlier documentation made vague references to "is set to build on". Flesh that out with references to the config settings, so folks can use git-config(1) to get more detail on what @{upstream} means. For example, @{upstream} does not care about remote.pushdefault or branch.<name>.pushremote. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
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@@ -94,7 +94,9 @@ some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8.
'<branchname>@\{upstream\}', e.g. 'master@\{upstream\}', '@\{u\}'::
The suffix '@\{upstream\}' to a branchname (short form '<branchname>@\{u\}')
refers to the branch that the branch specified by branchname is set to build on
- top of. A missing branchname defaults to the current one.
+ top of (configured with `branch.<name>.remote` and
+ `branch.<name>.merge`). A missing branchname defaults to the
+ current one.
'<rev>{caret}', e.g. 'HEAD{caret}, v1.5.1{caret}0'::
A suffix '{caret}' to a revision parameter means the first parent of