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[PATCH] git-clone: fetch possibly detached HEAD over dumb http

From
SVSven Verdoolaege <skimo@liacs.nl>
Date
Jun 28, 2007, 10:52 UTC
Message-ID
<20070628105208.GA11105@liacs.nl>

git-clone supports cloning from a repo with detached HEAD, but if this HEAD is not behind any branch tip then it would not have been fetched over dumb http, resulting in a

	fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD

Since 928c210a, this would also happen on a http repo with a HEAD that is a symbolic link where someone has forgotton to run update-server-info.

Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@liacs.nl>
---
 git-clone.sh |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-clone.sh b/git-clone.sh
index bd44ce1..cdbbc20 100755
--- a/git-clone.sh
+++ b/git-clone.sh
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?"
 		git-http-fetch $v -a -w "$tname" "$sha1" "$1" || exit 1
 	done <"$clone_tmp/refs"
 	rm -fr "$clone_tmp"
-	http_fetch "$1/HEAD" "$GIT_DIR/REMOTE_HEAD" ||
+	http_fetch "$1/HEAD" "$GIT_DIR/REMOTE_HEAD" &&
+	git-http-fetch $v -a $(cat "$GIT_DIR/REMOTE_HEAD") "$1" ||
 	rm -f "$GIT_DIR/REMOTE_HEAD"
 }
 
-- 
1.5.2.2.585.g9cc0-dirty
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  1. git-clone: fetch possibly detached HEAD over dumb httpSven Verdoolaege, Jun 28, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 29, 2007
  3. Sven VerdoolaegeJun 29, 2007
  4. git-clone: fetch possibly detached HEAD over dumb httpSven Verdoolaege, Jun 29, 2007
  5. Alex RiesenJun 30, 2007
  6. Sven VerdoolaegeJun 30, 2007
  7. Alex RiesenJun 30, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 1, 2007
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