From: Holger Hellmuth (IKS) <hellmuth@ira.uka.de>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:38:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Your branch and 'origin/master' have diverged
Message-ID: <502BECAD.90307@ira.uka.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vfw7o6p1g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Am 15.08.2012 19:30, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> The current rule is very
> simple and understandable.  You either say from the command line
> exactly what should happen (refspec without colon is the same as the
> refspec with colon at the end, meaning "do not track"; if you want
> to track, you write what to update with the fetch), or we use the
> configured refspec (which again spells what should happen).

Couldn't a similar new rule just say that refspec <name> is a short for 
<name>:<name> ?

The exception would be in the case of a URL as remote, but that would 
not be surprising to anyone, as there is no obvious target for the update