From: Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com>
To: Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Remote's 'currently active branch' not HEAD?
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 15:02:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130903130250.GB20459@pc.elego.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130903123733.GR12966@inner.h.apk.li>
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 02:37:33PM +0200, Andreas Krey wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:48:31 +0000, Andreas Krey wrote:
> ...
> > I now have a sample repo that reproduces this behaviour.
> > Unpack tar file, clone, see clone having 'wrong' branch
> > checked out, apparently independent of the transport:
>
> Ouch, it looks like 'git clone' doesn't actually know
> the 'current remote branch' but picks one of those that
> happen to have the HEAD *commit* as their tip.
Yes, it picks the first of those:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/168144
> At least the 'git clone' doc would be misleading then.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-03 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-03 10:46 Remote's 'currently active branch' not HEAD? Andreas Krey
2013-09-03 11:48 ` Andreas Krey
2013-09-03 12:37 ` Andreas Krey
2013-09-03 13:02 ` Michael Schubert [this message]
2013-09-03 13:50 ` Andreas Krey
2013-09-03 15:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-06 11:41 ` Andreas Krey
2013-09-06 12:54 ` Andreas Krey
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