Johan Herland <jo...@herland.net> writes: > However, in addition to requiring a matching remote/refspec, I also > (for reasons that are still unclear to me) added a requirement that > the resulting remote ref name (to be stored into branch.<name>.merge) > must start with "refs/heads/" (see the last line of > branch.c:check_tracking_branch()). > > Although it is typically the case that an upstream branch is a proper > (refs/heads/*) branch in the remote repo (which explains why we have > not noticed this until now), I think it is _wrong_ of Git to _require_ > this when configuring the upstream.
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