From: Jakub Narebski Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:49:45 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Multiple refs from the same remote in one git fetch Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20060814063309.GD21963@mellanox.co.il> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Quoting r. Junio C Hamano : [...] >> I have been hesitant to claim that it does not make any sense to >> use more than one tracking branch for the same remote branch, >> because the only reason I might say so is because I haven't >> thought of a good usage pattern to do so. >> >> But apparently you do use more than one local branch to keep >> track of one remote branch. How do you use it for? Do you feel >> it is a good feature to be able to do that, or do you think it >> is just a mistake and more sensible error message is what we >> would really want? >> > > Well, what I was *trying* to do is simply add a more descriptive name for > the linus master branch to my existing tree. > So it seemed like an obvious idea to add > > Pull: master:origin > Pull: master:linus_master Couldn't you do this via symlinks or symrefs? BTW. Do we support symrefs other than HEAD, and does reflog works with symref heads, and symlinked heads? -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git