On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? The point is, why punish client for remote's problems? If I have to talk to upstream and wait for them to fix their repository, I might as well give up cloning and move on. It's OK to annoy users to the point that they ask upstream for a fix, but we should not disallow clone in that case. -- Duy -- 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