Re: Why is git clone not checking out files?

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jan 30, 2007, 19:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20070130190907.GE26415@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <17855.38543.761930.929267@lisa.zopyra.com>

Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:

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> % cd /repos/git/project
> % GIT_DIR=. git branch
>   topic
> 
> And then, tried it all again:
> 
> % cd ..
> % rm -rf project
> % mkdir project
> % cd project
> % git --bare clone --shared
> % GIT_DIR=. git fetch git://source/public/project

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

-- 
Shawn.