From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:22:37 GMT Subject: Re: Why is git clone not checking out files? Message-ID: <20070130182237.GC26415@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <17855.35845.922009.364704@lisa.zopyra.com> Bill Lear 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... -- Shawn.