From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:22:09 GMT
Subject: Re: git clone (ssh://) skips detached HEAD
Message-ID: <7vipspfazy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110601220518.GA32681@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> We basically have two choices:
>
>   1. Fetch objects for HEAD on clone.
>
>   2. Don't checkout a detached HEAD if we don't have the object (or
>      possibly, don't checkout a detached HEAD at all; we already do
>      something similar for the case of a HEAD that points to a bogus
>      branch).
>
> I think (2) is more consistent with the refspec we set up, but (1) is
> probably more convenient to users (and better matches the case where the
> remote is on a detached HEAD that _does_ point to something we have).

Probably. As HEAD is usually visible via ls-remote exchange, the usual
security concern would not come into the picture even if we do (1), even
though it feels somewhat wrong to do.