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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Why is git clone not checking out files?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:41:03 -0800 (PST)
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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