From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:10:46 GMT
Subject: Re: remote's HEAD not detected correctly
Message-ID: <7vk4gjhi15.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110228214207.GA5854@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> It depends on the transport protocol. It actually works over dumb http,
> though I suspect that is not getting used much these days. I also
> implemented a quick-and-dirty patch for local repositories here:
>
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/110049
>
> which would make Jeffrey's test pass, but I have a feeling it was just a
> simple test case and that he actually cares about real remotes.
>
> -Peff
>
> PS I think the "send-HEAD-explicitly" patch series was here:
>
>      http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/102039
>
>    I had some complaints at the time, but re-reading it I don't see
>    anything that would prevent us from revisiting the topic now.

Good digging.