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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Cloning into an existing, non-empty directory?
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 03:59:13 -0500
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Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> I'm not sure what a good meaning for "git merge <repository>" would
>> be.
>
> It's equivalent to refs/remotes/<repository>/HEAD if that exists.

Ah, I should have checked gitrevisions(7).  Thank you.

Jonathan
who wonders where his origin/HEAD symref came from and if
"git remote set-head --auto origin" was ever automatic