Re: Why is git clone not checking out files?

From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2007, 18:29 UTC
Message-ID: <17855.36470.309129.391271@lisa.zopyra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070130182237.GC26415@spearce.org>

On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 13:22:37 (-0500) Shawn O. Pearce writes:

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>Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:
>> Ok, well, I certainly did not issue git clone --bare, it was just a
>> plain ol' clone:
>> 
>> % git clone /repos/git/project
>> 
>> and no checkout ensued.  Can I fix this somehow?  I've tried the clone
>> several times with no success.  Is there anything I can check in the
>> source repo (the above /repos/git/project) to see why it would not be
>> working?
>
>I've seen this happen if HEAD in the source repository does not point
>at a branch, or points at a commit which doesn't exist.  Though I
>usually also see an error about how HEAD isn't a valid object name...

Hmm.

% cd /repos/git/project % ls branches description HEAD info refs config FETCH_HEAD hooks objects remotes % cat HEAD ref: refs/heads/master % cat FETCH_HEAD 2ed7b6f672963bab4bad713a71967f683fe01163 branch 'topic' of git://source/public/project 2ed7b6f672963bab4bad713a71967f683fe01163 not-for-merge tag 'fbdev_ref_1' of git://source/public/project

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

Bill