Re: How to clone-pack the HEAD?

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:

Except that I cannot do the guessing git-clone-pack does (without
fetching all the branches)

Exactly my point.  If you are not getting all the branches, you
are not cloning but doing something else.

Extending git-fetch-pack would be the right approach if that is
what you are trying to do.