From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: 2.0.0 regression? request pull does not seem to find head
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 14:27:25 -0700
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"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:

> Looks like pull requests no longer work for me on linux.

Wasn't "does not seem to find head" was very much deliberate?

Linus's patch wanted the users to explicitly tell the tool, without
tool trying to be too helpful and risking to guess incorrectly.

> Some other trees (non-linux) work fine but I didn't yet
> check whether it's the local or the remote tree that's
> at issue.
>
> Or maybe it's a configuration change that I missed?
>
> Note: I have
> [push]
>         default = matching
> configured in .gitconfig.

This should not affect anything in request-pull, I think.