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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 12:54:11 +0700
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> That's crazy talk. Why does anybody from a hostile remote to begin with?

The point is, why punish client for remote's problems? If I have to
talk to upstream and wait for them to fix their repository, I might as
well give up cloning and move on. It's OK to annoy users to the point
that they ask upstream for a fix, but we should not disallow clone in
that case.
-- 
Duy