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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-clone.sh: properly configure remote even if remote's head is dangling
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:17:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbq6b4c27.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080220151017.17840.qmail@767a223c93e1c8.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> (Gerrit Pape's message of "Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:10:17 +0000")

Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> writes:

> When cloning a remote repository which's HEAD refers to a nonexistent
> ref, git-clone cloned all existing refs, but failed to write the
> configuration for 'remote'.  Now it detects the dangling remote HEAD,
> refuses to checkout any local branch since HEAD refers to nowhere, but
> properly writes the configuration for 'remote', so that subsequent
> 'git fetch's don't fail.

The patch looks Ok, thanks.

By the way, I am still waiting for an ack/nack to my butchering
of your earlier "hash-object" patch.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/73811/focus=73964
  Message-Id: <7vskzugm8x.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-20 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-20 15:10 [PATCH] git-clone.sh: properly configure remote even if remote's head is dangling Gerrit Pape
2008-02-20 15:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-20 20:17 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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