git fetch only for current branch

Question

I know that I can fetch any remote branch to any local branch, but is there also some kind of shortcut to fetch just from the tracked remote branch to the current tracking local

Answer 1

Per https://stackoverflow.com/a/12142066/25192 - you can use this to find the name of the current branch:

git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

...then substitute this into the fetch command as the refspec.