Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
Junio, I'm not sure what you want to do with this. It is definitely a
behavior change; we have never respected post-checkout hooks in shell
git-clone.sh or in the builtin version. However, it seems like an
omission rather than an intentional behavior, so I consider this a
bugfix.
I do not mind queueing this to 'pu' and let people fight it out. I hate
the local side hooks that have no reason to be there, and consider that
the existence of the "checkout hook" to be a bug to begin with, but I
really don't care that deeply anymore.