[PATCH 3/7] git-clone - Set remotes.origin config variable

[Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>]

This records the users choice of default remote name (by default "origin")
as given by the -o option.

Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-clone.txt |    3 ++-
 git-clone.sh                |    1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 2341881..f15aecd 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ OPTIONS
 --origin <name>::
 -o <name>::
 	Instead of using the remote name 'origin' to keep track
-	of the upstream repository, use <name> instead.
+	of the upstream repository, use <name> instead. The name
+	is recorded in the core.origin config variable.
 
 --upload-pack <upload-pack>::
 -u <upload-pack>::
diff --git a/git-clone.sh b/git-clone.sh
index b4e858c..7208d68 100755
--- a/git-clone.sh
+++ b/git-clone.sh
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ fi &&
 export GIT_DIR &&
 GIT_CONFIG="$GIT_DIR/config" git-init $quiet ${template+"$template"} || usage
 
+git config core.origin $origin
 if test -n "$bare"
 then
 	GIT_CONFIG="$GIT_DIR/config" git config core.bare true
-- 
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