Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > We already have to deal with this special case of origin/HEAD > being re-pointed in a repository that we "clone", so we would just > do whatever happens to a repository that's cloned. OK. Not visiting that issue while we discuss this "origin/HEAD is useful, so create it even for non-initial-clone case" topic makes it simpler to discuss.