On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 12:55:47AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

This second case is IMHO a minor bug in the git-remote code. As
documented in git-clone(1):
[...]
So probably it needs to use the "gently" version of git_config_set_multivar(),
which avoids calling die(), and then check for a return code which
indicates no value was found.

Actually, there is an even simpler fix. So here are two cleaned-up
patches which fix both issues you found.

  [1/2]: clone: allow "--bare" with "-o"
  [2/2]: remote: handle rename of remote without fetch refspec

 builtin/clone.c          |  3 ---
 builtin/remote.c         | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 t/t5505-remote.sh        | 11 +++++++++
 t/t5606-clone-options.sh |  9 ++++----
 4 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

-Peff