[PATCH] ls-remote fix for rsync:// transport

Junio C Hamano· May 25, 2006, 04:22 UTC · lore

I think this would fix the "cloning rsync:// clones repository fine but does not check out the working tree" problem.

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Show changes to git-ls-remote.sh +9 −1

diff --git a/git-ls-remote.sh b/git-ls-remote.sh
index b6882a9..6b21879 100755
--- a/git-ls-remote.sh
+++ b/git-ls-remote.sh
@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ http://* | https://* )
 	;;
 
 rsync://* )
-	mkdir $tmpdir
+	mkdir $tmpdir &&
+	rsync -rlq "$peek_repo/HEAD" $tmpdir &&
 	rsync -rq "$peek_repo/refs" $tmpdir || {
 		echo "failed	slurping"
 		exit
@@ -69,6 +70,13 @@ rsync://* )
 		cat "$tmpdir/$path" | tr -d '\012'
 		echo "	$path"
 	done &&
+	head=$(cat "$tmpdir/HEAD") &&
+	case "$head" in
+	ref:' '*)
+		head=$(expr "z$head" : 'zref: \(.*\)') &&
+		head=$(cat "$tmpdir/$head") || exit
+	esac &&
+	echo "$head	HEAD" 
 	rm -fr $tmpdir
 	;;

Sean· May 25, 2006, 05:01 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: [PATCH] ls-remote fix for rsync:// transport

On Wed, 24 May 2006 21:22:17 -0700 Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

> I think this would fix the "cloning rsync:// clones repository fine but
> does not check out the working tree" problem.

Nice find, works here.

Sean

patchls-remote fix for rsync:// transport