On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 02:14:07PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > This is a bug which we should fix. But in the meantime the obvious > workaround is to expand the default refspec to cover both branches. > Obviously the default of fetching "refs/heads/*" would work, but if you > want to keep it limited for some reason, you can add the second branch > explicitly. In the example above, it would be: > > git config --add remote.origin.fetch +refs/heads/branch2:refs/remotes/origin/branch2 And here's the patch to fix it. There was a small cleanup needed, hence the 2-patch series. [1/2]: fetch: stop checking for NULL transport->remote in do_fetch() [2/2]: fetch: add branch.*.merge to default ref-prefix extension builtin/fetch.c | 18 +++++++++++++++--- t/t5520-pull.sh | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -Peff