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From: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Subject: Re: git clone through http bug?
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:28:14 +0300
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In-Reply-To: <ee77f5c20802140936y28be9b39i59753af66e1a5e36@mail.gmail.com> (David Symonds's message of "Thu\, 14 Feb 2008 09\:36\:22 -0800")
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"David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>  I've just cloned the public repo (it's rather small):
>>
>>  $ git clone http://ydirson.free.fr/soft/git/cvsps.git
>>
>>  and it has created cvsps/.git, but no working copy.
>
> That's because the remote side doesn't have a HEAD. Just run "git
> checkout --track -b master origin/master" to create a local branch the
> tracks the origin/master branch.

Thanks, that works:

$ git checkout --track -b master origin/master
warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born.
warning: Forcing checkout of origin/master.
Already on branch "master"
$

Couldn't GIT be more clever and just do this for me? Besides, the fact
that it has created HEAD that points nowhere still seems wrong.

-- Sergei.