Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 2012/1/10 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: >> 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. > > Then a hostile remote can stop users from cloning his repository by > detaching HEAD? That's not nice. That's crazy talk. Why does anybody from a hostile remote to begin with? > On the other hand, if specifying --branch=<wrong-branch> leads to > detached case, then we should probably refuse to clone. If you mean "nonexistent" by "wrong", yeah, I agree, as we do not know what the user asked us to pull down in that case. -- 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