[[!comment format=mdwn username="mithrandi@311efa1b2b5c4999c2edae7da06fb825899e8a82" nickname="mithrandi" subject="comment 2" date="2016-03-08T02:52:40Z" content=""" In the end, I took the approach of making the thing that used the git repo update it before using it (since the use case was amenable to such a thing). """]]