Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2021, #04; Sat, 16)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 21, 2021, 23:10 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqbldhc2es.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20210121183427.1783539-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>

Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> writes:

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>> * jt/clone-unborn-head (2020-12-22) 3 commits
>>  - clone: respect remote unborn HEAD
>>  - connect, transport: add no-op arg for future patch
>>  - ls-refs: report unborn targets of symrefs
>> 
>>  "git clone" tries to locally check out the branch pointed at by
>>  HEAD of the remote repository after it is done, but the protocol
>>  did not convey the information necessary to do so when copying an
>>  empty repository.  The protocol v2 learned how to do so.
>> 
>>  What's the status of this thing?
>
> Several people have commented on the high-level approach (and I have
> addressed those comments), but I don't think anyone has said that the
> code itself looks OK. I'll see if I can get some of my colleagues to
> review this.

Thanks.