"brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > However, up until 8b214c2e9d ("clone: propagate object-format when > cloning from void", 2023-04-05), we honored GIT_DEFAULT_HASH in this > case, so let's continue to do that. Let's not. Once we identified the bug of mistakenly honoring a wrong variable, let's fix it and keep it fixed. The local optimization, if necessary, can be taught to peek the source repository and propagating the object format selection to the destination repository.