Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?

> Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
>> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>
>>> But since you're one of the people knowing git _internals_ pretty
>>> well, here's another reason just for you why this cannot be done:
>>> There is no way to find out where the HEAD points to.
>>
>> $ mkdir foo; cd foo; git init; git symbolic-ref -q HEAD
>> refs/heads/master
> 
> Johannes is talking about the lack of native protocol support to
> transfer symref information.  That's the reason git-clone dances
> around finding where HEAD really points at.  It simply does not
> know -- all it gets about a symref is what SHA-1 the ref points
> at.