Re: [PATCH 3/3] clone: always fetch remote HEAD

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Heya,

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 00:18, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So I guess it doesn't like us asking for HEAD. But the fact that it
> sends weird data to fast-import instead of saying "hey, HEAD doesn't
> exist" has me confused. I'm not sure if this is something one should not
> be doing with remote helpers, or if the testgit helper is simply buggy
> or incomplete.

Definitely the latter, quite possibly the former. I don't know if
asking for "HEAD" makes much sense in a remote-helper context though.
In Mercurial it does (e.g., tip), and in svn sort of, but I don't know
about other vcs-es. Perhaps it should be guarded by a capability?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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