Re: [PATCH] clone: allow detached checkout when --branch takes a tag

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On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 06:09:16PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> > I wonder, though, if the original code makes any sense. By using
> > "refs/", I would have to say "--branch=heads/foo", which is kind of
> > weird and undocumented. I think it should probably always be
> > "refs/heads/", no matter if we are mirroring or not.
> 
> --branch should not be used with --mirror in my opinion. --branch
> changes HEAD so it's no longer an exact mirror.

You could be making a repo that mirrors all of the refs, but has a
different HEAD (e.g., the upstream has "development" as the main branch,
but you want a local mirror with "production" as the HEAD).

I agree it's an unlikely combination (which is probably why nobody has
complained about the weird behavior), but I don't see a particular
reason to forbid it.

-Peff
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