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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] clone: print advice on checking out detached HEAD
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:54:22 +0700
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2012/1/10 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> 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