From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:04:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Local clone checks out wrong branch based on remote HEAD
Message-ID: <20090319040402.GB32435@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <76718490903181411p743382f1qb053363f28a800b1@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 05:11:25PM -0400, Jay Soffian wrote:

> 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