From: Junio C Hamano <jch@google.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:28:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Solved: why cloning my repo always got the wrong default branch; possibly missing featurette?
Message-ID: <xmqq7gx8zxyh.fsf@junio.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F926B02.3050104@diamand.org>

Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org> writes:

> At a guess, the protocol would need to be changed to put the symbolic
> ref information in somehow (upload-pack.c, send-refs() ?).
>
> Is this a bug, or a feature?

Known protocol limitation, as you already seem to have discovered.
I think I outlined a possible protocol extension in a message a few
years ago, but nobody seemed to be interested/motivated enough, so...