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We didn't test this setup at all, and doing so reveals a few
bugs:

  1. Cloning a repository with an orphaned detached HEAD
     (i.e., one that points to history that is not
     referenced by any ref) will fail.

  2. Cloning a repository with a detached HEAD that points
     to a tag will cause us to write a bogus "refs/tags/..."
     ref into the HEAD symbolic ref. We should probably
     detach instead.

  3. Cloning a repository with a detached HEAD that points
     to a branch will cause us to checkout that branch. This
     is a known limitation of the git protocol (we have to
     guess at HEAD's destination, since the symref contents
     aren't shown to us). This test serves to document the
     desired behavior, which can only be achieved once the
     git protocol learns to share symref information.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jeff King authored and Junio C Hamano committed Jun 6, 2011
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#!/bin/sh

test_description='test cloning a repository with detached HEAD'
. ./test-lib.sh

head_is_detached() {
git --git-dir=$1/.git rev-parse --verify HEAD &&
test_must_fail git --git-dir=$1/.git symbolic-ref HEAD
}

test_expect_success 'setup' '
echo one >file &&
git add file &&
git commit -m one &&
echo two >file &&
git commit -a -m two &&
git tag two &&
echo three >file &&
git commit -a -m three
'

test_expect_success 'clone repo (detached HEAD points to branch)' '
git checkout master^0 &&
git clone "file://$PWD" detached-branch
'
test_expect_success 'cloned HEAD matches' '
echo three >expect &&
git --git-dir=detached-branch/.git log -1 --format=%s >actual &&
test_cmp expect actual
'
test_expect_failure 'cloned HEAD is detached' '
head_is_detached detached-branch
'

test_expect_success 'clone repo (detached HEAD points to tag)' '
git checkout two^0 &&
git clone "file://$PWD" detached-tag
'
test_expect_success 'cloned HEAD matches' '
echo two >expect &&
git --git-dir=detached-tag/.git log -1 --format=%s >actual &&
test_cmp expect actual
'
test_expect_failure 'cloned HEAD is detached' '
head_is_detached detached-tag
'

test_expect_success 'clone repo (detached HEAD points to history)' '
git checkout two^ &&
git clone "file://$PWD" detached-history
'
test_expect_success 'cloned HEAD matches' '
echo one >expect &&
git --git-dir=detached-history/.git log -1 --format=%s >actual &&
test_cmp expect actual
'
test_expect_success 'cloned HEAD is detached' '
head_is_detached detached-history
'

test_expect_failure 'clone repo (orphan detached HEAD)' '
git checkout master^0 &&
echo four >file &&
git commit -a -m four &&
git clone "file://$PWD" detached-orphan
'
test_expect_failure 'cloned HEAD matches' '
echo four >expect &&
git --git-dir=detached-orphan/.git log -1 --format=%s >actual &&
test_cmp expect actual
'
test_expect_failure 'cloned HEAD is detached' '
head_is_detached detached-orphan
'

test_done

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