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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 3"""
+ date="2018-08-06T15:47:56Z"
+ content="""
+This came up again in <https://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/local_caching_of_annexed_files/>
+and there it was sufficient to configure remote.name.fetch so that no
+branches were fetched from the cache remote.
+
+Approach #3 can be implemented using:
+
+	fetch = refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/private/nomerge/master
+
+This prevents git-fetch from fetching the git-annex branch, and
+it makes the remote master banch fetch into a name that
+git-annex won't automatically merge into master.
+"""]]