Re: Why is git clone not checking out files?

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2007, 18:49 UTC
Message-ID: <200701301950.00195.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701301040200.3611@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
>> 
>> % cd /repos/git/project
>> % ls
>> branches  description  HEAD   info     refs
>> config    FETCH_HEAD   hooks  objects  remotes
>> % cat HEAD
>> ref: refs/heads/master
> 
> Ok, HEAD points to "master".
> 
>> This repository was created like this:
>> 
>> % mkdir /repos/git/project
>> % cd /repos/git/project
>> % git --bare init-db --shared
>> % GIT_DIR=. git fetch git://xiphi/public/project topic:topic
> 
> ...but you don't _have_ any such branch. You only have a "topic"
> branch.

...so "git clone" tries to checkout HEAD -> refs/heads/master branch, which does not exist. It is strange that git does not report error or at least warning, though...

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland