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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: recent change in git.git/master broke my repos
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:38:06 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > Isn't that called a remote branch that gets updated with "git fetch' ?
> > You can even trick Git into not using the refs/remotes/ namespace for them
> > if you wish.
> > 
> 
> You'd lose the ability to do "git diff origin/master" while disconnected
> though. It's quite valuable.

I don't see how you'd lose anything.


Nicolas