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Subject: Re: Sequent repos ,, pull without checkout
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From:   "Raymond E. Pasco" <ray@ameretat.dev>
To:     "Wolfgang Graf" <wg@wogra.net>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 03 Sep 2020 18:25:16 -0400
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This is the expected behavior. The branches in a repository (what you
see when you run "git branch" with no arguments") are different from the
remote-tracking refs (what you see when you run "git branch -r", and
which are updated by "git fetch"). You can't track another repository's
remote-tracking refs with your remote-tracking refs, just its actual
branches.

The part which may be confusing is that "git checkout", as a shortcut,
lets you attempt to check out a branch that does not exist, and if a
branch with the same name exists on a remote, it will create the branch
and set it up to track that remote branch.

If you wanted to fetch branches from multiple other repositories,
though, you would ordinarily add those repositores as remotes, rather
than pushing everything through a single existing remote.

Hope that helps.