Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> A trivial patch is to just do
>
> 	git pack-refs --all --prune
>
> in the "git-clone.sh" script rather than force people to do it themselves, 
> but we really probably shouldn't have ever even unpacked them in the first 
> place. That is kind of stupid, but especially since that thing is written 
> in shell, it's hard to do anything smarter.

It is not just being in shell.

Although I do agree that the initial clone is special, I would
rather make clone just a thin wrapper to fetch that also happens
to perform necessary initial setup.

Keeping fetched and updated refs in core and write a packed refs
out in one go in git-fetch--tool (and later, git-fetch all in C)
would be much simpler if we do not have to worry about existing
refs (aka "git clone" special case); I am not sure if packing
refs is desirable in general for incremental "git-fetch".

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