From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:36:59 GMT
Subject: Re: unable to push
Message-ID: <20080601183659.GA5818@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0806011133050.15294@asgard.lang.hm>

On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 11:34:19AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:

>> Did you mean "init" here instead of clone? The clone should have created
>> at least one branch (generally master, but depending on the current
>> branch of the cloned repo).
>
> no, it was definantly a clone, and it did not create a master branch (at  
> least not one that showed up with git branch -a)

Hmm. It's possible that you cloned a repo that didn't have its HEAD
pointing at the master branch (for example, one with a detached HEAD).
And that would explain how you got into that situation (and either way,
the discussed ways out of the situation apply).

-Peff