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Thu, 21 May 2026 19:53:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Phillip Wood Cc: Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget , git@vger.kernel.org, Ramsay Jones , "D. Ben Knoble" , Kristoffer Haugsbakk , Marc Branchaud , Harald Nordgren Subject: Re: [PATCH v11] checkout: extend --track with a "fetch" mode to refresh start-point In-Reply-To: <01526f43-86aa-466f-a1e8-054284e1a2e1@gmail.com> (Phillip Wood's message of "Thu, 21 May 2026 15:06:35 +0100") References: <01526f43-86aa-466f-a1e8-054284e1a2e1@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 08:53:07 +0900 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Phillip Wood writes: > Don't we want to avoid creating a branch with an ambiguous upstream so > that a subsequent "git pull" works though? Looking at > branch.c:setup_tracking() it seems to reject upstream branches that > match more than one remote. Yes. We may try to avoid creating misconfigured branches in the first place, but we'd want to make sure other parts of the system that consumes existing branches to behave as sensible as possible, no? Thanks.