From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:05:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] clone: always fetch remote HEAD
Message-ID: <BANLkTikLZSrsy0D0Gs-tNKgbqJOG7qJNsA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110606161143.GC11485@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Heya,

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 18:11, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> I'll try the nicer fix Sverre mentioned and post a real patch. I wanted
> to add a test for multiple refs to the test suite, but I got bogged down
> by other breakages. Some of which I think are the fault of testgit, but
> one of which I think may be a problem in the transport-helper code.

I'm not 100% the current remote-helper code allows that, since there
might be some interaction where the transport-helper code needs to
read from the helper before closing the connection. I don't think
that's the case, but I'm not sure of it either.

> I gave up in frustration after many hours of dealing with it on Friday,
> but I'll give it another go today. :)

Sounds familiar.

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier