Re: Solved: why cloning my repo always got the wrong default branch; possibly missing featurette?

Luke Diamand [off-list ref] writes:

At a guess, the protocol would need to be changed to put the symbolic
ref information in somehow (upload-pack.c, send-refs() ?).

Is this a bug, or a feature?

Known protocol limitation, as you already seem to have discovered.
I think I outlined a possible protocol extension in a message a few
years ago, but nobody seemed to be interested/motivated enough, so...