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

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Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
Date
Sep 3, 2013, 12:37 UTC
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On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:48:31 +0000, Andreas Krey wrote: ...

> 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:

Ouch, it looks like 'git clone' doesn't actually know the 'current remote branch' but picks one of those that happen to have the HEAD *commit* as their tip.

At least the 'git clone' doc would be misleading then.
Andreas
-- 
"Totally trivial. Famous last words."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
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