Subject: Re: when is a remote a branch?

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:36:16 +0100

Petr "Pasky" Baudis wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 06:31:18PM CET, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>
>> By the way, with introduction of branches and remotes in config file,
>> you can say:
>>  [branch "localbranch"]
>> 	remote = someremote
>>  [remote "someremote"]
>> 	fetch = remotebranch:localbranch
>> 	push  = remotebranch:localbranch
>> 
>> and that would be equivalent to example branches file from
>> the beginning of this email.
> 
> According to the documentation, this is not really useful since this
> just tells what should git fetch default to when on branch
> "localbranch". But "localbranch" is still just a branch representing a
> state in a remote repository, so you should never be _on_ it in a sane
> setup, but instead on a different branch which tracks it.

Oh. Can you "git fetch Localbranch" _without_ repository named 
"localbranch" in above case?
-- 
Jakub Narebski