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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> AFAICT "clone -o" was meant _only_ for this scenario:
>
> You have a slow connection, but someone can provide you with a thumb 
> drive, having the current repository.
>
> You clone it from the thumb drive, but of course you want to use your 
> (slow) connection for subsequent updates (i.e. you want to have a 
> different default remote).
>
> What you do is
>
> 	$ git clone -o thumbdrive /media/usbdisk/that-repository.git/
>
> Then, to be able to update from your preferred remote quickly, you add the 
> proper remote:
>
> 	$ git remote add --fetch origin git://git.kernel.org/shlub.git/
>
> In my understanding, this scenario is the only reason to live for clone's 
> -o option, and it would be actively wrong for it to change the _name_ of 
> the default remote to "thumbdrive".

Then we should fix "git-clone".

If you do the first command, I am reasonably sure that you would
get:

	[branch "master"]
        	remote = thumbdrive

in your .git/config.  You may want to occasionally go back to
thumbdrive for sneakernetting, so I do not think we should
remove [remote "thumbdrive"] section the clone would leave, but
the above "master branch would interact with thumbdrive
repository" should not be there.

And that corrected behaviour and the intended use of -o should
be documented.