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From: "Jakub Narebski" <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Why is git clone not checking out files?
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:56:53 +0100
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On 1/30/07, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> ...so "git clone" tries to checkout HEAD -> refs/heads/master
> branch, which does not exist. It is strange that git does not
> report error or at least warning, though...

It would be nice if git-clone at the very end (at checkout) wrote which
branch we are at, e.g.
  "On branch refs/heads/master"
  "Not currently on any branch"
  "Current branch refs/heads/master does not exist"
-- 
Jakub Narebski