Thank you all for your answers and the interesting following discussion. >From a user perspective (I do not know how git works internally), the approach proposed by Juno looks very intuitive to me. Now I understand there are other cases and users to take into account, which make the implementation complex. I hope this will be part of git 1.7.0. --Tom -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Question-regarding-git-fetch-tp3527289p3534609.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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