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Re: Local clone checks out wrong branch based on remote HEAD

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 19, 2009, 04:04 UTC
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<20090319040402.GB32435@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<76718490903181411p743382f1qb053363f28a800b1@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 05:11:25PM -0400, Jay Soffian wrote:
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> I think there are two reasonable paths forward:
> 
> 1) Address Jeff's concerns above so that the symref can be sent.
> 2) In lieu of (1), have clone at least warn that multiple branches
> match and that it just picked one.

I think we should do (2) regardless. Even with an updated client, remote servers may have an older git which does not support (1) for some time.

So I guess it's time to refactor guess_remote_head _again_. :)
-Peff
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