From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 02:11:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Branch relationships
Message-ID: <7vbqu0xcjk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200605150348.53879.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> writes:

> But not supporting this in a first step should be no problem, as
> you always can do "git pull somewhere that-head" directly.

That defeats the point of .git/remotes/ setup, and I suspect is
unacceptable to people who pull from a given branch of a given
repository repeatedly without ever tracking it.  Think of the
maintainer pulling from subsystem maintainers.