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From: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Friendly refspecs (Was: Re: git annoyances)
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 16:32:09 -0400
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On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
>  So would it be any good if "git fetch <URL>" without refpecs would use
>  +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/<name>/* ? In any case the current behaviour
>  seems quite unfriendly.

But what should <name> be if you didn't provide it by doing
git-remote-add?  I think the lack of an obvious name for them is
exactly why the branch names don't get created automatically.

Avery