Re: [PATCH 0/5] branch: Fix --track on a remote-tracking non-branch

Johan Herland [off-list ref] writes:

However, in addition to requiring a matching remote/refspec, I also
(for reasons that are still unclear to me) added a requirement that
the resulting remote ref name (to be stored into branch.<name>.merge)
must start with "refs/heads/" (see the last line of
branch.c:check_tracking_branch()).

Although it is typically the case that an upstream branch is a proper
(refs/heads/*) branch in the remote repo (which explains why we have
not noticed this until now), I think it is _wrong_ of Git to _require_
this when configuring the upstream.

Yeah, I agree.