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From: Dror Livne <dror.livne@mobileye.com>
Subject: Fetch and refs/remotes/<refname>/HEAD
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 13:28:05 +0000 (UTC)
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I have noticed that when cloning a repository, I get a
refs/remotes/origin/HEAD symbolic ref.

On the other hand, when fetching a new remote, the remote HEAD is not set by
git-fetch (but can be added later by `git remote set-head ...')

I was under the impression that clone is equivalent to (at least) init+fetch.

Is there a rationale for that difference in behavior?

Dror Livne