"Santi Béjar" [off-list ref] writes:
...
you need to reorganize other things (not the same output, to download
all the refs you need to write a config with refs/heads/*:..., "git
fetch" does not have a --no-progress), so I opted for
a minimal path (and not break the most used path :-).
That sounds like a sensible explanation. As the external
interface won't change even if we later do so, let's take this
version for 1.5.5.
Thanks.