Re: Local clone checks out wrong branch based on remote HEAD

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 17, 2009, 23:40 UTC
Message-ID: <7viqm7pvkl.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0903171530160.19665@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> ... I think there's also been discussion of a 
> protocol extension to transmit the information, although I don't know 
> where that ended up.

You can find them in the list of threads posted nearby.

The first round's protocol extension was not quite backward compatible but in a benign way, in that it did not break anything but induced a harmless warning from older ls-remote. The second round did not have such flaw but it got a "Yuck".

    From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
    Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:44:15 -0500
    Message-ID: <20081201174414.GA22185@coredump.intra.peff.net>
    Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6 (v2)] upload-pack: send the HEAD information

I somehow feel that the "Yuck" was addressed not to the patches but to the problem the patch needs to address.

We could resurrect it if somebody is interested.