From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pekka Enberg Subject: [PROBLEM] Checkout from cloned repository does not work Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 14:20:32 +0300 Message-ID: <84144f0205090204201f74e425@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 02 13:21:25 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EB9b6-0002R7-8S for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:20:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751136AbVIBLUg (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 07:20:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751173AbVIBLUg (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 07:20:36 -0400 Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.202]:3270 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751136AbVIBLUg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 07:20:36 -0400 Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x37so198899nfc for ; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 04:20:32 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=OPCs19NsVy5UxrF9AYvb+VhDUKsNBWNl8IWaHAY3RknAiWF5JbByMUDmQeXdki1JVwOuPTNBB7E6AwQXSt1L273uPTJB8nSg/j79jVnWnAc2oT75x//kvuN8F4PyAuKp0IK4yGzHlBj38NTERJTa+drizPReleIgehYjreJB414= Received: by 10.49.5.17 with SMTP id h17mr152953nfi; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 04:20:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.157.17 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 04:20:32 -0700 (PDT) To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I cannot checkout from a cloned git repository I have created. I am using git 0.99.5 from Gentoo portage. Following the tutorial, I create new git repository: $ mkdir git-test $ cd git-test/ $ git-init-db defaulting to local storage area $ echo "Hello, Git" > hello $ git-update-cache --add hello $ git-write-tree 4bd2134df7a908d2764f70d155e32650954cfc72 $ echo "Initial commit" | git-commit-tree 4bd2134df7a908d2764f70d155e32650954cfc72 > .git/HEAD Committing initial tree 4bd2134df7a908d2764f70d155e32650954cfc72 Now on the server, I create a repository: $ mkdir git-test.git GIT_DIR=git-test.git/ git-init-db Then I push my local repository to remote server like this: $ git push ssh.remote.server:/home/penberg/public_html/git-test.git master Password: updating 'refs/heads/master' from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 to 8744316e49411509ba28e9cf567f3aec5833ec74 Packing 3 objects Unpacking 3 objects 100% (3/3) done refs/heads/master: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 -> 8744316e49411509ba28e9cf567f3aec5833ec74 After which I clone the newly created repository like this: $ git clone http://www.remote.server/~penberg/git-test.git cloned defaulting to local storage area Somebody should define smarter http server protocol Now, the problem is that checkout does not work: $ git checkout usage: git-read-tree ( | -m [-u] [ []]) That's because I have no HEAD: $ ls -l .git/HEAD lrwxrwxrwx 1 penberg users 17 Sep 2 14:07 .git/HEAD -> refs/heads/master $ ls -l .git/refs/heads/ total 0 What am I doing wrong here? Doing a git pull causes the following error: $ git pull http://www.remote.server/~penberg/git-test.git Fetching HEAD from http://www.remote.server/~penberg/git-test.git using http got 8744316e49411509ba28e9cf567f3aec5833ec74 got 4bd2134df7a908d2764f70d155e32650954cfc72 got b7aec520dec0a7516c18eb4c68b64ae1eb9b5a5e * committish: 8744316e49411509ba28e9cf567f3aec5833ec74 HEAD from http://www.remote.server/~penberg/git-test.git cat: .git/HEAD: No such file or directory fatal: Needed a single revision git-resolve-script Pekka