Re: Why is git clone not checking out files?

From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2007, 19:27 UTC
Message-ID: <17855.39959.848058.957592@lisa.zopyra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070130190907.GE26415@spearce.org>

On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 14:09:07 (-0500) Shawn O. Pearce writes:

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>...
>You did not ask for a tracking branch to be created.  So the
>result of your fetch is in FETCH_HEAD only.  Try instead:
>
>GIT_DIR=. git fetch git://source/public/project topic:refs/heads/master

Ok, then when I clone this my master branch in my cloned repo will actually be pointing to the topic branch of the remote repo?

[recreate dir, re-init, fetch as above, clone; now, cd into cloned repo]
% cd project
% git branch
* master
  origin

This makes me really nervous, like a nervousness-inducing cloaking device would. I'm not enough of a git master to just "use the force". When I go into my cloned repo, I want to see "topic" for my branch name, not master...

BTW, I note also that the clone seems to have taken GOBS more time this time around. Am I seeing things or would this be a result of the fetch gymnastics above?

Bill