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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is git clone not checking out files?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:41:03 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701301040200.3611@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17855.36470.309129.391271@lisa.zopyra.com>



On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
> 
> % cd /repos/git/project
> % ls
> branches  description  HEAD   info     refs
> config    FETCH_HEAD   hooks  objects  remotes
> % cat HEAD
> ref: refs/heads/master

Ok, HEAD points to "master".

> This repository was created like this:
> 
> % mkdir /repos/git/project
> % cd /repos/git/project
> % git --bare init-db --shared
> % GIT_DIR=. git fetch git://xiphi/public/project topic:topic

...but you don't _have_ any such branch. You only have a "topic" branch.

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-30 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-30 18:05 Why is git clone not checking out files? Bill Lear
2007-01-30 18:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-30 18:18   ` Bill Lear
2007-01-30 18:22     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-30 18:29       ` Bill Lear
2007-01-30 18:41         ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-01-30 18:49           ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-30 19:04             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-30 19:11               ` Bill Lear
2007-01-30 19:15                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-30 19:36                   ` Bill Lear
2007-01-30 19:43                     ` Bill Lear
2007-01-30 19:54                       ` Bill Lear
2007-01-30 20:38                     ` Bill Lear
2007-01-30 19:18               ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-31  9:56             ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-30 19:03           ` Bill Lear
2007-01-30 19:09             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-30 19:17               ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-30 19:27               ` Bill Lear
2007-01-30 19:33             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-30 20:00               ` Linus Torvalds

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