Hi, On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Gerrit Pape wrote: > When cloning a remote repository which's HEAD refers to a nonexistent > ref, git-clone cloned all existing refs, but failed to write the > configuration for 'remote'. Now it detects the dangling remote HEAD, > refuses to checkout any local branch since HEAD refers to nowhere, but > properly writes the configuration for 'remote', so that subsequent 'git > fetch's don't fail. I like your reasoning, and your patch. Except maybe... > diff --git a/t/t5701-clone-local.sh b/t/t5701-clone-local.sh > index 822ac8c..59a165a 100755 > --- a/t/t5701-clone-local.sh > +++ b/t/t5701-clone-local.sh > @@ -63,4 +63,12 @@ test_expect_success 'Even without -l, local will make a hardlink' ' > test 0 = $copied > ' > > +test_expect_success 'local clone of repo with nonexistent ref in HEAD' ' > + cd "$D" && ... making this a subshell would be nice, so that subsequent tests start out from trash/ again? Ciao, Dscho - 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