Garbage in .git directories???

Hi,

I just did:

git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git work

and it seems there is some garbage in .git directory:

[dtor@anvil work]$ ls -la .git/
total 40
drwxrwxr-x    9 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 .
drwxrwxr-x    3 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 ..
drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 branches
-rw-rw-r--    1 dtor dtor   58 Sep 17 21:17 description
lrwxrwxrwx    1 dtor dtor   17 Sep 17 21:17 HEAD -> refs/heads/master
drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 hooks
drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 info
drwxr-xr-x  260 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 17:41 objects
drwxrwxr-x    4 dtor dtor 4096 May  1 19:15 refs
drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:28 remotes
drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 V?Cl?���?E ???#V?C??ſl??E#V?C??;H
                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The similar garbage(?) shows when I clone git's repository.

Is this expected?

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Dmitry