Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make git-clone --use-separate-remote the default

From: Salikh Zakirov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:58:47 +0300

Petr Baudis wrote:
> --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
> ...
>  --use-separate-remote::
>  	Save remotes heads under `$GIT_DIR/remotes/origin/` instead
> -	of `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/`.  Only the master branch is saved
> -	in the latter.

This description does not apply to repositories which do not have 'master' branch.
Maybe "only the HEAD branch of remote repository, where
HEAD is the branch designated as main branch in repository".