Re: Why is git clone not checking out files?

>On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 13:36:50 (-0600) Bill Lear writes:
>>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
>
>Ummm, I may have made a mistake here ... doing again to ensure I did
>not mis-type above ...