This was pointed out by uwerler in IRC. ok stsp

found by jrick on freenode

Set up config files as soon as possible such that 'got fetch' has enough information in order to resume an interrupted clone operation. We need to receive at least a default HEAD branch name from the server before we can set up our configuration files. The previous code also verified whether the default branch name supplied by the server resolved to a commit received in the pack file. This check cannot be done early but a wrong branch name in a config file can be fixed easily.

The generated Git config file instructed Git to fetch all branches rather than the default branch as was intended. Check generated configuration files in all clone tests in order to catch such problems in the future.

An object ID which appears first in a pack index was wrongly ignored by got_packidx_match_id_str_prefix(). The result was a spurious "object not found" error when this object ID was passed on the command line. Reported by jrick on freenode who was lucky enough to this edge case!

If a merged commit wants to delete a locally added file, and this locally added file matches the content which was deleted in the commit being merged, we can go ahead with the deletion because there is no risk of data loss. fixes the histedit problem reported by jrick on freenode

If a previous commit introduces a new file, and it is folded into a commit that deletes the same file, the file still exists after the histedit. reported by jrick on freenode

Storing a resolved ID for each reference list item was a bad idea. This ID cannot be resolved if a symbolic references points to a reference which does not exist. Such symrefs were skipped by got ref -l as a result. Just let users of reference lists resolve the IDs as needed.