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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> Then you can make a simple change that if a refname matches a directory
> in refs/remotes/, you rewrite it as refs/remotes/<refname>/master. This
> makes 'origin' work seamlessly in a natural way and a lot more elegantly
> than if you make up an artifical rule like "if the remote's branch is
> master, save it as origin, but save all the other branches verbatim".

The "origin" rename applies only to the traditional one.
Separate remote stuff stores master in remotes/master.

At least that is the way I remember I designed it to work.