Re: [Discuss] soften warning message after cloning "void"

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Feb 19, 2015, 05:12 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kZAtnhKYQgoA=d-UfQ8LfH4qTxaAFpJRJPSYApD7dwtzg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPc5daVoHCxg8-xEVxJK-G0HKKHApbwCzTd0q6jab5jfyHcarQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
>>
>> This fails from a JGit server because the ref advertisement for an
>> empty repository differs and disagrees with the format used by
>> git-core. The result is a confused client spewing an odd checkout
>> message.
>
> That is exactly why the rephrasing was brought up, wasn't it?
>
> As the Subject: line says, this thread is for people who want to
> help those users with un-odd message, so discuss away
> and come up with a final applicable patch ;-).

"warning: remote HEAD does not exist, not checking out any branch."

would then be the correct answer. Are we able to detect between the two cases of a HEAD pointing to refs/heads/void and HEAD just not existing?