On Monday 20 March 2006 09:54, you wrote: > * A new flag --use-separate-remote stops contaminating local > branch namespace by upstream branch names. The upstream > branch heads are copied in .git/refs/remotes/ instead of Shouldn't this be .git/refs/remotes/origin/? Ie. different namespaces for different remotes? Linus wanted to still be able to say "origin" which automatically would map to "remotes/origin/master", where the name of the remote branch (here "master") is the first mentioned in the Pull line of the .git/remotes file in eg. git diff origin..master I am not sure whether we really want "take first refspec mentioned on Pull line", as there can be multiple tracked remote branches with their own local developments... Ie. I want to be able to specify: "The local development branch X is based on the following remote branch Y , which is tracked locally as Z.". This way, you also could warn/prohobit accidential nonsense merges because of wrong use of "git-pull". Josef - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html