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From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: FETCH_HEAD question
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:43:32 -0500
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I did this the other day out of mild curiosity:

$ git fetch
$ git merge FETCH_HEAD

Which did something, but not something that was at all useful. It
merges in the first ref listed in FETCH_HEAD. It does not appear to be
an accident that it does this, as git merge has special treatment for
FETCH_HEAD to generate the merge message.

Why does this behavior exist? Historical?

j.