From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] clone: print advice on checking out detached HEAD Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:36:10 -0800 Message-ID: <7v4nw4cs1x.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1325771380-18862-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> <1326023188-15559-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> <1326023188-15559-6-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King To: =?utf-8?B?Tmd1eeG7hW4gVGjDoWkgTmfhu41j?= Duy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 10 01:36:24 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RkPhP-0002dM-7c for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:36:23 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933640Ab2AJAgO (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:36:14 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:58541 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933621Ab2AJAgM (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:36:12 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DEFD64E9; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:36:12 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=qGbE9C5Ztt3RfhqKw7oqcBndvZI=; b=s8xAtL rMFMOisVsWGoXe7BGx3mEQTHQbJw1vEV1w7fiTKfYWpLAj6wDrDcbSGotHRLbUuv n4QjLA5QbPy0slBtANCSww4jhc2w18cyUwF8hb7uD+8PuLxQ9zMKu5iFVVEQK3ot jWRmmJmk8mVVx7Pnw6zBoT5Q73Yoz7yf/h2ss= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=n7NbWgYaPj1KblBAqbXGc/LFsuScEfvn vMGZoGsKjfyYz1/OVW3bPOnTSDMAcsBqE5IEMqV1VnwdjsrByHtKOXJzODFbdfWt NVi5h949C0vGtxh7HUZkBgCP/IYjigK9iwvQr/iIj687vxCAxHMSAHoCu8N0pL1Z TbyZC7FHCw8= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6582F64E8; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:36:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DA86464E7; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:36:11 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <1326023188-15559-6-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> (=?utf-8?B?Ik5ndXnhu4VuCVRow6FpIE5n4buNYw==?= Duy"'s message of "Sun, 8 Jan 2012 18:46:28 +0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 18846A1C-3B23-11E1-96A3-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: This patch makes 100% sense _if_ we let clone result in a repository with a detached HEAD, which I am not sure if it is a good idea, or if it is better to fail the attempt to clone to give incentive to the owner of the remote repository to fix it.