On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> + warning(_("remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref; "
>> + "leaving the current branch unborn.\n"));
>
> Personally I find that more confusing, because I have an idea of
> what checkout may refer to. The notion of an unborn branch is not
> clear to me.
> Maybe
>
>> - warning(_("remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, "
>> - "unable to checkout.\n"));
>> + warning(_("remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref; "
>> + "Checking out $branch instead.\n"));
>
> with $branch being master in the example above. I'd have no idea
> how to come up with a good heuristic which branch to checkout.
> (It would need to match current behavior)
Checking out a random branch is absolutely the worst thing you can
do. Personally, I would think that the best thing you can do is to
educate your users not to clone from a void. Create some history
that is worth sharing, and then push into an empty repository.
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