Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:
One of the Cogito design bits is that branch name is something local to
the repository. When you are adding a branch, the local name you assign
it is your private thing repository-wise, and doesn't have to have any
correlation to other repositories you might interact width.
I do not disagree with that. I think branch name is mostly a
local matter. However, I happen to think that two repositories
you use send-pack (not clone which uses completely different
protocol) to sync one from the other are semantically equivalent
ones, except that the destination may be a strict subset. I
think of it as "a copy I throw at a public place to show what I
have in my private repository I work in", so,...