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From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:52:45
This patch makes 100% sense _if_ we let clone result in a repository with a detached HEAD, which I am not sure if it is a good idea, or if it is better to fail the attempt to clone to give incentive to the owner of the remote repository to fix it.
From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:52:45
2012/1/10 Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]:
This patch makes 100% sense _if_ we let clone result in a repository with a detached HEAD, which I am not sure if it is a good idea, or if it is better to fail the attempt to clone to give incentive to the owner of the remote repository to fix it.
Then a hostile remote can stop users from cloning his repository by detaching HEAD? That's not nice. On the other hand, if specifying --branch=<wrong-branch> leads to detached case, then we should probably refuse to clone. But that should happen before transferring the pack. -- Duy