Re: [PATCH] builtin/clone: avoid failure with GIT_DEFAULT_HASH

"brian m. carlson" [off-list ref] writes:

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Alternatively, I certainly wouldn't complain if you did introduce a new
function and updated the call-site that passes reinit as 1.

I thought about introducing a new function, but since it would share
almost all of the code, it seemed a bit wasteful, even if the function
is small.  We do have only two callers, I believe, since I recall
making this function non-static and calling it from clone, so I think
it's okay.

Perhaps.

FWIW, this seems to have strange interaction with something in
'seen' when merged; I suspect it is the topic that mucks with the
set-up sequence for "git clone", but didn't check.