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

> Subject: Re: Multiple pulls from the same branch in .git/remotes/origin
> 
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il> writes:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Currently, no.  The underlying git-fetch-pack makes sure you do
> not give the same branches twice on the command line.  I think
> what the code actually tries to do is to make sure each of the
> given refspecs is not ambiguous and matches something, but while
> doing so it marks the remote ref that matched ineligible to
> match again, which ends up showing the error message you saw.
> 
> It might not be too difficult to change it though.  This part of
> the code is relatively old and I do not remember the details
> offhand, other than I remember that the first time I saw it I
> had the same confused "Huh?  we do not let a ref fetched twice?"
> reaction ;-).