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

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il> writes:

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 ;-).