From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:36:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] clone: always fetch remote HEAD
Message-ID: <BANLkTim03_3DLdDkc3QgFrcUa0Fqhhqnbw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110603051805.GC1008@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Heya,

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 00:18, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> So I guess it doesn't like us asking for HEAD. But the fact that it
> sends weird data to fast-import instead of saying "hey, HEAD doesn't
> exist" has me confused. I'm not sure if this is something one should not
> be doing with remote helpers, or if the testgit helper is simply buggy
> or incomplete.

Definitely the latter, quite possibly the former. I don't know if
asking for "HEAD" makes much sense in a remote-helper context though.
In Mercurial it does (e.g., tip), and in svn sort of, but I don't know
about other vcs-es. Perhaps it should be guarded by a capability?

-- 
Cheers,