Multiple pulls from the same branch in .git/remotes/origin

From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Date: Aug 7, 2006, 12:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20060807125116.GA28658@mellanox.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <20060727140343.GS9411@mellanox.co.il>

Hi, all! I have

> git --version

git version 1.4.2.rc3.g0d95 and I have put the following in .git/remotes/origin

>cat .git/remotes/origin

URL: ssh://mst@frodo/scm/git/linux-2.6
Pull: refs/heads/linus_master:refs/heads/origin
Pull: refs/heads/linus_master:refs/heads/linus_master_branch

now I get:

>git fetch origin

error: no such remote ref refs/heads/linus_master Fetch failure: ssh://mst@frodo/scm/git/linux-2.6

However, if I remove the second line, like this:

>cat .git/remotes/origin

URL: ssh://mst@frodo/scm/git/linux-2.6
Pull: refs/heads/linus_master:refs/heads/origin

I get remote linus_master properly fetched into local origin.
Two questions:
1. Isn't is possible to pull from the same remote branch into multiple local
   branches?
2. Even if not, isn't the error message above a bit strange?
   After all, the remote branch *does* exist.

Thanks,

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MST