diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
index 10657134a8..5809aa4eb9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ or from several repositories at once if <group> is given and
 there is a remotes.<group> entry in the configuration file.
 (See linkgit:git-config[1]).
 
+When no remote is specified, by default the `origin` remote will be used,
+unless there's an upstream branch configured for the current branch.
+
 OPTIONS
 -------
 include::fetch-options.txt[]
diff --git a/abspath.c b/abspath.c
index e390994abf..8b3385a777 100644
--- a/abspath.c
+++ b/abspath.c
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static const char *real_path_internal(const char *path, int die_on_error)
 error_out:
 	free(last_elem);
 	if (*cwd && chdir(cwd))
-		die_errno ("Could not change back to '%s'", cwd);
+		die_errno("Could not change back to '%s'", cwd);
 
 	return retval;
 }
diff --git a/builtin/remote.c b/builtin/remote.c
index f532f35457..119e9151ad 100644
--- a/builtin/remote.c
+++ b/builtin/remote.c
@@ -307,8 +307,13 @@ static int config_read_branches(const char *key, const char *value, void *cb)
 				space = strchr(value, ' ');
 			}
 			string_list_append(&info->merge, xstrdup(value));
-		} else
-			info->rebase = git_config_bool(orig_key, value);
+		} else {
+			int v = git_config_maybe_bool(orig_key, value);
+			if (v >= 0)
+				info->rebase = v;
+			else if (!strcmp(value, "preserve"))
+				info->rebase = 1;
+		}
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/t/t0002-gitfile.sh b/t/t0002-gitfile.sh
index cb144258cc..37e9396e5d 100755
--- a/t/t0002-gitfile.sh
+++ b/t/t0002-gitfile.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Verify that plumbing commands work when .git is a file
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 objpath() {
-    echo "$1" | sed -e 's|\(..\)|\1/|'
+	echo "$1" | sed -e 's|\(..\)|\1/|'
 }
 
 objck() {
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ objck() {
 	fi
 }
 
-
 test_expect_success 'initial setup' '
 	REAL="$(pwd)/.real" &&
 	mv .git "$REAL"
diff --git a/t/t0003-attributes.sh b/t/t0003-attributes.sh
index 0b98b6f8d0..b9d79476e2 100755
--- a/t/t0003-attributes.sh
+++ b/t/t0003-attributes.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ attr_check () {
 	test_line_count = 0 err
 }
 
-
 test_expect_success 'setup' '
 	mkdir -p a/b/d a/c b &&
 	(