How is cloning a benefit over forking? Either way you end up with the repository littering your list. I suppose if you clone you could immediately delete the

How is cloning a benefit over forking? Either way you end up with the repository littering your list. I suppose if you clone you could immediately delete the clone after submitting the patch, but that seems premature. In both cases, you can delete the repo after the patch is applied, couldn't you?