Martin Langhoff <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > A common problem when cloning over http is that the repo has > a symlink for HEAD, and apache refuses to serve symlinks by > default. > > Without this patch, the clone succeeds as a "bare" and "HEADless" > clone, but does not give any indication that things have gone > wrong. > > A bare clone that fails to fetch HEAD will still complete > "successfully". I'm not sure if that's expected/desired. Is a > HEADless repo valid in any situation? You would get "fatal: Not a git repository". Why not default to 'master' (if found) and issue a warning? - 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