Linus Torvalds

git_clone() always fails if the remote doesn't have a default head

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We use libgit2 for the dive log data saving in subsurface (https://github.com/subsurface/subsurface). The subsurface use of branches on the server side is bit odd, in that the server doesn't have...

Don't fail the whole clone if you can't find a default branch

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In commit 6bb358786 ("clone: set refs/remotes/origin/HEAD to default branch when branch is specified, attempt 2") libgit2 was changed to set the default remote branch when one was copied. But it...

Very slow cloning of "file://" repository format

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So we use libgit2 in subsurface as one of the ways to access the dive data, and am starting to add some support for actually accessing repositories remotely. While doing...