Re: Can someone confirm what the contents of refs/heads/master means?

["David Copeland" <davetron5000@gmail.com>]

Ah, that makes sense (I did another clone of another repo and did not
experience this behavior, so now that all makes sense).

Thanks!

Dave

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2008.12.08 11:23:46 -0800, davetron5000 wrote:
>> I'm using git-svn to interact with an SVN repo that has branches.
>>
>> After my clone via:
>>
>> git svn clone $REPO/main -T trunk -b branches -t tags
>>
>> my 'master' branch pointed to one of the branches in svn and not to
>> the main trunk. (my .git/config looked correct for svn interaction,
>> i.e. trunk pointed to the right place).
>
> Just to clear up that bit as well. when the "fetch" finishes (which is
> part of the clone process), git-svn checks if there is a master branch,
> and if not, it creates one from the last commit it created. So if your
> last svn commit was to branch XYZ and not to trunk, master will
> reference that commit on branch XYZ.
>
> Björn
>