Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

"J. Bruce Fields" [off-list ref] writes:

Yeah.  I considered doing the above some time ago and ran into some
differences between git-clone and "git init && git remote add && git
fetch"--I think it may have just been that the latter didn't guess the
HEAD in the same way.  That's fixed now, right?

"git remote add" by itself does not talk with remote, so unless you let
it do the initial fetch it is not fixable (and no, "git remote add -f"
currently does not do the guesswork either).