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

>> My point being that I still can say
>>
>> 	git pull x some_non_default_head
>>
>> with a file "x" in .git/branches.
>
> Is this currently possible?

Not right now, but that is the plan.

> My understanding of .git/branches was that Cogito uses this as mapping of 
> remote branches/heads to local branches/refs, and not to store shortcuts for 
> remote git repositories.
> IMHO, the above usage is a kind of "type mismatch", as the "x" already 
> contains the branch.

You can look at it this way: "x which already contains the
branch" can specify the default branch if command line did not
say anything, but the command line can override it.