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Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:

> Is it fishy if the working directory and index match HEAD?  If not, then
> we could detect that and allow update in that case?

That actually is what 'git-pull' does when you misconfigure and
use your current branch as the tracking branch (which is the
only reason 'git-fetch' has the --update-head-ok option that
should never be used by the end user).

We really should disallow this.