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

> But not supporting this in a first step should be no problem, as
> you always can do "git pull somewhere that-head" directly.

That defeats the point of .git/remotes/ setup, and I suspect is
unacceptable to people who pull from a given branch of a given
repository repeatedly without ever tracking it.  Think of the
maintainer pulling from subsystem maintainers.