Re: [PATCH] builtin-branch: highlight current remote branches with an asterisk

> > > Yeah, as I said in the other mail, having it as a default would make add
> > > -m quite pointless.
> > 
> > Not necessarily. You might be interested in some other branch that isn't
> > their HEAD. So yes, you would hopefully be using it much less because we
> > would be guessing what you wanted to put there instead of making you
> > type it. But it would still be useful as an override.
> 
> I guess you read that in the wrong context (or I replied in the wrong
> context). What I meant is that it would be bad if "git remote update" or
> "git fetch <remote>" or whatever would update <remote>/HEAD
> automatically, as that would kill what you have setup with -m.