Re: [PATCH] Cogito: Support for implicit remote branches in cloned repositories

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:

This loses the pretty nice property that 'origin' refers to the HEAD
branch of the remote repository,...

I think the code actually honors what your HEAD points at;
I did not go into that detail in the above description.

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*1* I say "by default" here; I think there should be an
operating mode for git clone that acts as a straight copy, not
even the current "HEAD" -> "origin" renaming.  In fact that is
what you do with low-level git-clone-pack.

What would it be useful for?

Cheap back-up, Linus style.