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
-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,