Re: git bug? + question

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 18:40:30 -0800
Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

which is efficient (guaranteed to do only one fetch from remote)
and convenient.  Also I have Push: mapping set up on my
main machine to do master:origin, next:next, maint:maint, and
+pu:pu so that I can replace the first "git pull" on the
secondary machine with "git push secondary" on my main machine.

One thing that would make separate-remotes nicer to work with
is to have an automatic mapping between any local branch and
one of the same name in remotes.

So for instance, if you have a local branch named pu checked
out and you pull from origin, remotes/origin/pu would be merged
after the fetch unless a manual mapping was defined in the
remotes or config file.

Maybe even going as far as automatically creating a local branch
for each remote branch on clone is worth considering.

On a peripherally related topic, someone on the xorg list was
complaining that after the initial clone, there is no easy way
to track branches that get added/deleted from the remote repo.
It would be nice if pull had an option to automatically add
and remove remote branches from the remotes/<remote>/xxx
namespace.