| commit | 3c8f60c6416bdfcc690ff5d56d80350a89ed92b5 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> | Tue Dec 12 08:01:03 2023 +0100 |
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Tue Dec 12 11:16:54 2023 -0800 |
| tree | 1236ebedb4e2e449a7924b0f153f21ebe41d8077 | |
| parent | 360822a3471f779c761694b11f30ff738c6851e9 [diff] |
builtin/clone: skip reading HEAD when retrieving remote After we have set up the remote configuration in git-clone(1) we'll call `remote_get()` to read the remote from the on-disk configuration. But next to reading the on-disk configuration, `remote_get()` will also cause us to try and read the repository's HEAD reference so that we can figure out the current branch. Besides being pointless in git-clone(1) because we're operating in an empty repository anyway, this will also break once we move creation of the reference database to a later point in time. Refactor the code to introduce a new `remote_get_early()` function that will skip reading the HEAD reference to address this issue. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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