The ability to add pull shortcuts. For example: git remote add -t master -m master quag git://quag.geek.nz/Io So instead of: git pull git://quag.geek.nz/Io one can do: git pull quag
git remote add -t master -m master quag git://quag.geek.nz/Io
git pull git://quag.geek.nz/Io
git pull quag