From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>,
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is git clone not checking out files?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:49:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701301950.00195.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701301040200.3611@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
>>
>> % cd /repos/git/project
>> % ls
>> branches description HEAD info refs
>> config FETCH_HEAD hooks objects remotes
>> % cat HEAD
>> ref: refs/heads/master
>
> Ok, HEAD points to "master".
>
>> This repository was created like this:
>>
>> % mkdir /repos/git/project
>> % cd /repos/git/project
>> % git --bare init-db --shared
>> % GIT_DIR=. git fetch git://xiphi/public/project topic:topic
>
> ...but you don't _have_ any such branch. You only have a "topic"
> branch.
...so "git clone" tries to checkout HEAD -> refs/heads/master
branch, which does not exist. It is strange that git does not
report error or at least warning, though...
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-30 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-30 18:05 Why is git clone not checking out files? Bill Lear
2007-01-30 18:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-30 18:18 ` Bill Lear
2007-01-30 18:22 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-30 18:29 ` Bill Lear
2007-01-30 18:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-30 18:49 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-01-30 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-30 19:11 ` Bill Lear
2007-01-30 19:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-30 19:36 ` Bill Lear
2007-01-30 19:43 ` Bill Lear
2007-01-30 19:54 ` Bill Lear
2007-01-30 20:38 ` Bill Lear
2007-01-30 19:18 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-31 9:56 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-30 19:03 ` Bill Lear
2007-01-30 19:09 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-30 19:17 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-30 19:27 ` Bill Lear
2007-01-30 19:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-30 20:00 ` Linus Torvalds
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