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Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> writes:

>> I think what is reasonable is something like this:
>> 
>>  - If you start from a repository cloned in the traditional
>>    way, the upstream "master" is kept track of with your
>>    "origin", so "diff origin master" would be "my changes on top
>>    of the upstream".
>
> Yes. And it would be nice if the same would work with the new layout,
> assuming that there is no local "origin" branch, but a .git/remotes/origin
> file and .git/refs/remotes/origin directory.

My primary aversion comes from that I'd rather avoid teaching
the really core stuff about .git/remotes file, and the part that
interprets refname is fairly a low-level part.

We _could_ record refs/remotes/origin/HEAD that points at
refs/remotes/origin/master (or some other branch) upon cloning,
and if Pasky wants to do something similar upon fetching, that
fetch command could do the same thing.