From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:18:03 GMT
Subject: Re: fatal: bad revision 'HEAD'
Message-ID: <20090810011803.GA435@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <06DCECD0-45F0-4695-86D4-7C54EFE4E640@gmail.com>

On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 03:15:46PM -0600, Joel Mahoney wrote:

> I am having trouble installing Ruby on Rails plugins from github.
> when I run e.g. script/install plugin git://github.com/thoughtbot/
> paperclip.git I get:
> 
> > Initialized empty Git repository in /path/to/my/project/vendor/
> plugins/paperclip/.git/
> > fatal: bad revision 'HEAD'
> > refusing to pull with rebase: your working tree is not up-to-date

I can "git clone" that repository just fine. What is it exactly that
installing a Rails plugin does with git? Can you try setting GIT_TRACE=1
in the environment and running your script to show us what git commands
it is executing?

-Peff