Git pull/fetch with refspec differences
问题 Using refspec is a convenient way to grab a remote branch and create a similar one but with given name (or the other way round: create a remote one with a given name different from the local one). I'm puzzled about one tiny thing - as pull will also do the merge with current branch I would expect different behavior from: git fetch origin master:mymaster and from git pull origin master:mymaster Both of the above commands seem to produce exactly same result - that is a local branch called