From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:17:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-clone.sh: properly configure remote even if remote's head is dangling
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In-Reply-To: <20080220151017.17840.qmail@767a223c93e1c8.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>

Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> writes:

> When cloning a remote repository which's HEAD refers to a nonexistent
> ref, git-clone cloned all existing refs, but failed to write the
> configuration for 'remote'.  Now it detects the dangling remote HEAD,
> refuses to checkout any local branch since HEAD refers to nowhere, but
> properly writes the configuration for 'remote', so that subsequent
> 'git fetch's don't fail.

The patch looks Ok, thanks.

By the way, I am still waiting for an ack/nack to my butchering
of your earlier "hash-object" patch.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/73811/focus=73964
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