Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt for clone's new default behavior
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:47
Luben Tuikov [off-list ref] writes:
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--- "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:...quoted
Remote branches are stored in separate namespaces under .git/refs/remotes/, so that they don't muck up your view of your local branches, and so git can enforce different policies for them (such as forbidding committing to them).Smells like another "newbie" protection. Let me understand, someone here installed git, didn't read the then man page of git-clone/pull/fetch, screwed up their repo, and decided to change established behavior.
You smelled and understood wrongly in this case. Another point in separate-remote layout is that it makes it easier to interact with more than one remotes, and we do not have to treat 'master' and 'origin' as branch names any more specially than necessary.