From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:12:35 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2011, #01; Wed, 6)
Message-ID: <7vd3hd6d9o.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vpqlmhoi0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> * jk/clone-detached (2011-06-07) 4 commits
>  - clone: always fetch remote HEAD
>  - make copy_ref globally available
>  - consider only branches in guess_remote_head
>  - t: add tests for cloning remotes with detached HEAD
>
> Somewhat involved bugfix.
> Will merge to "next".

What is it in this series that causes t5800 to fail when merged to next, i.e.

$ sh t5800-remote-helpers.sh -i -v

expecting success: 
        git clone "testgit::${PWD}/server" localclone &&
        test_cmp public/file localclone/file

Cloning into localclone...
fatal: Got feature command 'relative-marks' after data command
fast-import: dumping crash report to /srv/project/git/git.git/t/trash
directory.t5800-remote-helpers/localclone/.git/fast_import_crash_16957
error: refs/remotes/origin/master does not point to a valid object!
error: Trying to write ref refs/heads/master with nonexistent object
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
fatal: Cannot update the ref 'HEAD'.
not ok - 2 cloning from local repo
#
#               git clone "testgit::${PWD}/server" localclone &&
#               test_cmp public/file localclone/file
#

Stumped...