From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Ian Molton <git-ian@mnementh.co.uk>
Cc: stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AW: git log on bare repository fails if the default branch is not called master
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 11:56:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmtetfuer.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9df6c37e-4c43-7697-0562-c49d4fa5b38f@mnementh.co.uk> (Ian Molton's message of "Fri, 3 Jun 2022 19:06:28 +0100")
Ian Molton <git-ian@mnementh.co.uk> writes:
> Why does a bare repo even have a HEAD file? (genuinely curious). It
> seems like it'd be best to create it when it's first pushed to? then
> it'd match whatever is used in the pushing repo...
There indeed are things that have no reason to exist in a bare
repository, but HEAD is not among them.
It should have HEAD to indicate what the owner of the repository
considers the primary branch to follow the project hosted there.
Anybody cloning from that bare repository will learn the name of
what HEAD points at and that branch gets checked out when "clone"
finishes its job.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-03 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-03 14:22 BUG: git log on bare repository fails if the default branch is not called master Ian Molton
2022-06-03 14:40 ` AW: " stefan.naewe
2022-06-03 18:06 ` Ian Molton
2022-06-03 18:56 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-06-04 0:50 ` Chris Torek
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