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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] nmbug: Add 'clone' and replace FETCH_HEAD with\r
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+"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:\r
+>>=20\r
+>> I think doing a fetch immediately after a clone deserves a comment.\r
+>\r
+> I commented in the commit message. Basically everything from =E2=80=9COne\r
+> tricky bit is that bare repositories don't set upstream tracking\r
+> branches by default=E2=80=9D down through =E2=80=9Cgives us the master-br=\r
+anch commit.=E2=80=9D\r
+> is describing what's going on here, and why I made these changes.\r
+\r
+Yes. To expand my comment, I think some of that information\r
+should be in the code.\r
+\r
+I'm not really sure about about the alternatives you mention.\r