Re: [PATCH] Multiple refs from the same remote in one git fetch

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

Quoting r. Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]:

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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?

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