Re: [PATCH 8/9] clone: die on errors from unpack_trees

2013-03-26 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: When clone is populating the working tree, it ignores the return status from unpack_trees; this means we may report a successful clone, even when the checkout fails. When checkout fails, we may want to leave the $GIT_DIR in place, as it might be possible to

[PATCH 8/9] clone: die on errors from unpack_trees

2013-03-25 Thread Jeff King
When clone is populating the working tree, it ignores the return status from unpack_trees; this means we may report a successful clone, even when the checkout fails. When checkout fails, we may want to leave the $GIT_DIR in place, as it might be possible to recover the data through further use of