Re: Why is git clone not checking out files?

>On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 20:15:37 (+0100) Johannes Schindelin writes:
>>On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 11:04:57 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writes:
>>> 
>>> >Anyway, it's certainly easy to fix. Bill, you can either:
>>> >
>>> > - just rename the "topic" branch to "master"
>>> 
>>> I don't think I want this.  I want to know I'm on the topic branch of 
>>> that repo, anything else really makes me nervous.
>>
>>The name in the bare repository does not matter as much as your _local_ 
>>name.
>
>Well, being a git newbie, it kinda matters to me.  I need linearity
>right now.  Anything that swerves is likely to result in me and my
>project stuck in the weeds.
>
>So, I tried a straight fetch:
>
>% GIT_DIR=. git fetch git://source/public/project
>
>This has one branch:
>
>% GIT_DIR=. git branch
>  topic