On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> This fails from a JGit server because the ref advertisement for an >> empty repository differs and disagrees with the format used by >> git-core. The result is a confused client spewing an odd checkout >> message. > > That is exactly why the rephrasing was brought up, wasn't it? > > As the Subject: line says, this thread is for people who want to > help those users with un-odd message, so discuss away > and come up with a final applicable patch ;-). "warning: remote HEAD does not exist, not checking out any branch." would then be the correct answer. Are we able to detect between the two cases of a HEAD pointing to refs/heads/void and HEAD just not existing? -- 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