Re: Remote's 'currently active branch' not HEAD?

From: Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 3, 2013, 11:48 UTC
Message-ID: <20130903114831.GA8559@inner.h.apk.li>
In-Reply-To: <20130903104652.GA5813@inner.h.apk.li>

On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:46:52 +0000, Andreas Krey wrote: ...

> I have a strange behaviour from a bare repo I inherited;
> when I clone from that one (ssh) the branch checked out
> is *not* the one referenced in HEAD in the remote repo,

I now have a sample repo that reproduces this behaviour. Unpack tar file, clone, see clone having 'wrong' branch checked out, apparently independent of the transport:

  wget http://abox.h.apk.li/clot.tar
  tar xvf clot.tar
  (cd clot && git branch -a)  # Current branch is 'r1'
  git clone clot c1
  (cd c1 && git branch -a)    # Current branch is 'aa'?

Same with git v1.7.1.x and v1.8.4.

Andreas

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800