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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html