Re: cloning a tree which has detached branch checked out

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 7, 2012, 17:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20120207171604.GA26614@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v4nv236xn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 09:11:00AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> > This particular bug should have been fixed before that, even, with my
> > c1921c1 (clone: always fetch remote HEAD, 2011-06-07). And it is tested
> > explicitly in t5707,...
> [...]
> What is funny is "error: Trying to write ref HEAD with nonexistant object".
> "git grep -e nonexistant f3fb0" does not register any hit.

That misspelling of "nonexistent" was fixed by 7be8b3b (Fix typo: existant->existent, 2011-06-16), around the same time as my clone patch. Which really makes me wonder if the OP is accidentally running an old version of git during the tests.

> >> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> >> > #git clone -n lab:/home/mst/scm/linux
> [...]
> Could it be that mysterious "lab:" protocol handler that is misbehaving?

I think you are misreading. It would be "lab::" in that case, no? The command above should do ssh transport to the machine "lab".

-Peff