The branch.<name>.merge value typically looks just like a
local ref. Tell the reader it is the ref name at the remote,
which may be different.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
---
Documentation/config/branch.txt | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config/branch.txt b/Documentation/config/branch.txt
index a592d522a7..cdc19edaaf 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/branch.txt
@@ -52,8 +52,10 @@ branch.<name>.pushRemote::
option to override it for a specific branch.
branch.<name>.merge::
- Defines, together with branch.<name>.remote, the upstream branch
- for the given branch. It tells 'git fetch'/'git pull'/'git rebase' which
+ The name of the branch ref at the remote `branch.<name>.remote`
+ that is used as the upstream branch for the given branch <name>.
++
+ It tells 'git fetch'/'git pull'/'git rebase' which
branch to merge and can also affect 'git push' (see push.default).
When in branch <name>, it tells 'git fetch' the default
refspec to be marked for merging in FETCH_HEAD. The value is
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