remote/clone bug: Stale tracking branch HEAD

From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Mar 16, 2008, 17:21 UTC
Message-ID: <200803161921.49274.tlikonen@iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <7v1w6bj7f9.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano kirjoitti:

> We are going into 1.5.5-rc feature freeze tonight, and squashing
> these bugs now are of the highest priority.  Please keep the bug
> reports and fixes flowing.

I hope this bug won't find it's way to the release:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/77188

In short: After 'git clone' the command 'git remote show origin' shows a stale tracking branch HEAD:

  Stale tracking branch (use 'git remote prune')
      HEAD

'git remote prune origin' removes branch 'master'; you can see this with "git remote show origin":

  New remote branch (next fetch will store in remotes/origin)
      master

'git fetch' fetches 'master' again but the stale tracking branch HEAD appears again.