From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 20:01:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] clone: make 'git clone -c remote.origin.fetch=<refspec>' work
Message-ID: <xmqqh9gioy67.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160307153304.GA23010@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> IMHO, we should stick to the conceptual model that "git clone" is:
>
>   git init
>   git config ... ;# set up remote, etc
>   git fetch
>   git checkout ;# obviously not for --bare
>
> The implementation has to diverge from that to do certain optimizations,
> but absent any good reason not to, I think we should aim for behaving
> "as if" those commands were run.

Yup, I 100% agree that we should aim for matching that mental model.