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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: cloning a tree which has detached branch checked out
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:41:00 +0200
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On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 02:08:33AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > I have a tree where I checked out a remote, without
> > creating a local branch, this detaches the HEAD:
> > # git branch
> > * (no branch)
> >   master
> > #git log|head -1
> > commit cec64082f689f949a397cb9b39423dc41545fa0e
> > #git log master..HEAD|head -1
> > commit cec64082f689f949a397cb9b39423dc41545fa0e
> > 
> > 
> > Now if I try to clone it:
> > #git clone -n lab:/home/mst/scm/linux
> > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/mst/scm/linux/.git/
> > remote: Counting objects: 1693446, done.
> > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (277054/277054), done.
> > Receiving objects: 100% (1693446/1693446), 418.16 MiB | 7.63 MiB/s,
> > done.
> > remote: Total 1693446 (delta 1414353), reused 1681280 (delta 1402358)
> > Resolving deltas: 100% (1414353/1414353), done.
> > error: Trying to write ref HEAD with nonexistant object
> > cec64082f689f949a397cb9b39423dc41545fa0e
> > fatal: Cannot update the ref 'HEAD'.
> > 
> > Looks like a bug, doesn't it?
> 
> Which git version?  IIRC there was some bugfix recently in that
> area...

Sorry, forgot to mention that. It's pretty recent:
$ git --version
git version 1.7.9.111.gf3fb0


> -- 
> Jakub Narebski