Alexander Potashev [off-list ref] writes:
I didn't think over the support of 'lost+found'.
Yeah, I do not think it is particularly a good idea, but that is what (I
thought) you implied in your original message.
In any case, you can always do
$ git clone -n $there it.git
$ mv it.git/.git . && rmdir it.git && git checkout -f
or something like that (adjust what you move out of it.git when you are
doing a bare clone), so in that sense I do not deeply care about the
motivation of your patch myself.
But I liked the helper function to abstract away the many identical checks
we do for "is it a dot or a dot dot?", and that was the primary reason why
I commented on your patches.