On 5/3/2017 22:22, Jeff King wrote: >> My patch deals with 'remote.<name>.refspec', i.e. 'remote->fetch'. >> Apparently some extra care is necessary for 'remote.<name>.tagOpt' and >> 'remote->fetch_tags', too. Perhaps there are more, I haven't checked >> again, and maybe we'll add similar config variables in the future. So >> I don't think that dealing with such config variables one by one in >> 'git clone', too, is the right long-term solution... but perhaps it's >> sufficient for the time being? > > I think your patch is a strict improvement and we don't need to hold up > waiting for a perfect fix (and because of the --single-branch thing you > mentioned, this may be the best we can do anyway). I agree. Let's fix one thing at a time, and not make this a overarching "account for all previously ignored config variables during clone" fix. Esp. as specifying the refspec is explicitly documented to work durig clone [1] I think we should get this in ASAP. Thanks for your work so far! [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone#git-clone---configltkeygtltvaluegt Regards, Sebastian