One thing it just occurred to me is to return the explicit refspec instead of the tracking branch. So with the default config (after a clone): $ git remote tracking origin refs/heads/master refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master this makes a difference in case we want to allow returning all the matching tracking branch and not the first one with more than one branch, as: $ git config remote.origin.fetch --add +refs/heads/*:refs/remote/another/* $ git remote tracking origin refs/heads/master refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master refs/heads/next:refs/remotes/origin/next $ git remote tracking origin refs/heads/master refs/heads/next refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/another/master refs/heads/next:refs/remotes/origin/next refs/heads/next:refs/remotes/another/next Thoughts? -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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