Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2021, #04; Sat, 16)

Jonathan Tan [off-list ref] writes:

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* jt/clone-unborn-head (2020-12-22) 3 commits
 - clone: respect remote unborn HEAD
 - connect, transport: add no-op arg for future patch
 - ls-refs: report unborn targets of symrefs

 "git clone" tries to locally check out the branch pointed at by
 HEAD of the remote repository after it is done, but the protocol
 did not convey the information necessary to do so when copying an
 empty repository.  The protocol v2 learned how to do so.

 What's the status of this thing?

Several people have commented on the high-level approach (and I have
addressed those comments), but I don't think anyone has said that the
code itself looks OK. I'll see if I can get some of my colleagues to
review this.

Thanks.