El 06/05/2013 00:36, "Junio C Hamano" <gits...@pobox.com> escribió:
>
> Johan Herland <jo...@herland.net> writes:
>
> > This would not allow the user to use the relevant $remote_name for $nick,
> > which I argue might be the more natural name for the user to use, since
> > it's the same name that is used for otherwise interacting with the remote.
>
> That is where we differ.
>
> The thing is, when you name a local ref (be it "refs/heads/master"
> or "refs/remotes/origin/master") with a short-hand, you are still
> dealing with a refname, not interacting with the remote at all.
>
> Taking notice of remote.$nick.fetch mappings only to complicate the
> refname resolution logic is absolutely unacceptable, at least to
> somebody who comes from the "we are interacting with refs, not with
> remotes" school, like me.

Maybe we could mark it explicity with a double slash: "$remote//$branch",
or similar. And it even allows a slash in the remote nick: "bar/baz//foo".

See you,
Santi

P.D: Resend because the list rejected it, sorry for the duplicate.
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