Re: fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.

From: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>
Date: Jun 8, 2007, 10:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20070608102113.GB2335@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vodjqkazp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hello Junio,

> ... well that was my initial guess, but even after setting up such a
> funny repository by hand, I cannot seem to reproduce it.

This was on a fresh clone. What I did was:

        (s017241) [/usr/src] git clone 131.188.30.102:/scratch/tg/linux-2.6/
        Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/src/linux-2.6/.git/
        remote: Generating pack...
        remote: Done counting 496189 objects.
        remote: Deltifying 496189 objects...
        remote:  100% (496189/496189) done
        Indexing 496189 objects...
        remote: Total 496189 (delta 401610), reused 496189 (delta 401610)
        100% (496189/496189) done
        Resolving 401610 deltas...
        100% (401610/401610) donedone
        fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD

I see it. Last line. I tried to clone from a repository which itself had a detached HEAD. Could that be the problem?

        Thomas