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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Why is git clone not checking out files?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:49:59 +0100
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Cc: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>,
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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