Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt for clone's new default behavior

Luben Tuikov [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

        [remote "origin"]
                url = http://blah/blah.git
                fetch = refs/heads/master

is also fine.  The point is that you do not have to use tracking
branches.  ", and when you get it here, ..." part is optional.

Ok. So then in this case "fetch = refs/heads/master" describes
.git/refs/heads/master or something else?

It names http://blah/blah.git/refs/heads/master (unless blah.git
repository uses packed refs then has pruned the loose refs).

If it does, then this is a local map.

No, it is just a list of remote refs (one element list because
there is only one "fetch =" line).

Does this mean that "fetch = <remote>:" is legal?  Shouldn't the
RHS always exist?

Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt