From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:36:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] clone: print advice on checking out detached HEAD Message-ID: <7v4nw4cs1x.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <1326023188-15559-6-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> This patch makes 100% sense _if_ we let clone result in a repository with a detached HEAD, which I am not sure if it is a good idea, or if it is better to fail the attempt to clone to give incentive to the owner of the remote repository to fix it.