From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 17:29:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] branch: Fix --track on a remote-tracking non-branch
Message-ID: <xmqq1u51zwn5.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1378464042-17476-1-git-send-email-johan@herland.net>

Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:

> However, in addition to requiring a matching remote/refspec, I also
> (for reasons that are still unclear to me) added a requirement that
> the resulting remote ref name (to be stored into branch.<name>.merge)
> must start with "refs/heads/" (see the last line of
> branch.c:check_tracking_branch()).
>
> Although it is typically the case that an upstream branch is a proper
> (refs/heads/*) branch in the remote repo (which explains why we have
> not noticed this until now), I think it is _wrong_ of Git to _require_
> this when configuring the upstream.

Yeah, I agree.