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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: strange behaviour, default branch on clone not as expected
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:35:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbotygeqv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E89E7E1.4000907@genband.com> (Chris Friesen's message of "Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:50:41 -0600")

Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com> writes:

> I have a bare repository on a server with (among others) branches
> "atca6900-ecgl" and "ncgl".  The "HEAD" file in the bare repository
> contains "ref: refs/heads/ncgl" and "git branch" in the bare
> repository shows an asterisk beside "ncgl".
>
> However, if I clone the bare repository I get "atca-6900-ecgl" as the
> default branch.  ".git/HEAD" contains "ref: refs/heads/atca6900-ecgl".

If ncgl is at the same commit as the acta one, this is expected. The
protocol does not carry enough information to tell which branch HEAD
points at.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-03 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-03 16:50 strange behaviour, default branch on clone not as expected Chris Friesen
2011-10-03 17:35 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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