From: carbonated beverage <ramune@net-ronin.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 08:54:30 GMT
Subject: Re: fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Message-ID: <20070610085430.GA17255@prophet.net-ronin.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vk5uekagd.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:27:30AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> How did you get your repository into such a state to begin with?

It's kinda odd to see this thread, as I hit this issue today, as well.

If you need another test case, the cvsps git repo shows this too:

ramune/lycaeum:git: git clone  http://ydirson.free.fr/soft/git/cvsps.git
<snip checkout messages>
ramune/lycaeum:git: cd cvsps
ramune/lycaeum:cvsps: ls
ramune/lycaeum:cvsps: git checkout -f
warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born.
warning: Forcing checkout of HEAD.
fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?
ramune/lycaeum:cvsps: cat .git/HEAD
ref: refs/heads/master
ramune/lycaeum:cvsps: ls .git/refs/head/master
ls: .git/refs/head/master: No such file or directory

-- DN
Daniel