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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: skimo@liacs.nl
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	Louis-Noel Pouchet <louis-noel.pouchet@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-clone: fetch possibly detached HEAD over dumb http
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 00:23:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070630222336.GA2703@steel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070630134542.GF7969MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>

Sven Verdoolaege, Sat, Jun 30, 2007 15:45:44 +0200:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 03:33:10PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
> > Sven Verdoolaege, Fri, Jun 29, 2007 10:31:08 +0200:
> > > +		head_sha1=`cat "$GIT_DIR/REMOTE_HEAD"`
> > > +		case "$head_sha1" in
> > > +		'ref: refs/'*)
> > > +			;;
> > 
> > And what do you do if the HEAD is a reflink on something not in refs/?
> > Like "ref: tmp"? Yes, it is unlikely, but is not forbidden.
> 
> It may not be forbidden, but I don't think it would
> work with current git-clone either.
> 

Every command which needs a proper .git will not work, so I take this
back completely.

The check for .git validity includes checking if HEAD contains
something sane, and this check is very simple: the HEAD is read
(readlink(2) or plain read(2)) and tested if it contains a
reference starting with "refs/", which maybe inconsistent with
resolve_gitlink_ref, but probably ok.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-30 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-28 10:52 [PATCH] git-clone: fetch possibly detached HEAD over dumb http Sven Verdoolaege
2007-06-29  0:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-29  8:11   ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-06-29  8:31   ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-06-30 13:33     ` Alex Riesen
2007-06-30 13:45       ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-06-30 22:23         ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2007-07-01  2:22           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-01 16:40             ` Alex Riesen

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