Yes, I think that is what I was thinking. By making users always say
where they are pulling, fetching or pushing from/to it becomes less
weird when you have to give a refspec too.
But this clearly harms the `git pull` case that relies upon the magic
branch.$name.remote and branch.$name.merge keys, as now git-pull is
expecting the user to supply a remote name, but one was already saved
for this current branch.
I would have no problem at all in removing the defaulting to "origin".
Leaving the magic branch.<name>.{remote,merge} as the only case where
0-argument "git pull" is allowed, would be much simpler to explain, and
would not impact the "centralized" operation mode.
Paolo