Re: Your branch and 'origin/master' have diverged

"Holger Hellmuth (IKS)" [off-list ref] writes:

Am 15.08.2012 19:30, schrieb Junio C Hamano:

quoted

The current rule is very
simple and understandable.  You either say from the command line
exactly what should happen (refspec without colon is the same as the
refspec with colon at the end, meaning "do not track"; if you want
to track, you write what to update with the fetch), or we use the
configured refspec (which again spells what should happen).

Couldn't a similar new rule just say that refspec <name> is a short
for <name>:<name> ?

Of course not.