Pasky seems to have a locally modified version at repo.or.cz to add HEAD to the result of update-server-info, but as far as I can see, update-server-info never placed HEAD in the result, and I do not think ls-remote compensated it by adding HEAD by hand, so that change is fixing the symptom rather than fixing the regression, but I am not sure where the true regression is. Most likely we broke git-fetch while trying to deal with repositories with insanely large number of refs (aka "fetch--tool partial rewrite in C"). Having said all that, I think it is a good idea nevertheless to add HEAD information across all transports, like Pasky's patch does. Currently http/ftp/rsync do not report HEAD while git native protocols do. Pasky, care to submit "server-info: Add HEAD to info/refs" for inclusion? - 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