Re: git init doesn't create master branch

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 29, 2013, 18:37 UTC
Message-ID: <7va9ndtyxj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <51A5FC17.8000608@intland.com>

"Ákos, Tajti" <akos.tajti@intland.com> writes:

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> Thanks for clarifying this thing for me! I don't really insist on
> having a master branch it's just that I tried to pull from a
> repository bundle and I got this error message:
>
> "Cannot merge multiple branches into empty head"
>
> The command was:
>
> git pull ../dump.dmp refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*
>
> Is this a better way of doing this?

You are not trying to merge all branches contained in the dump, so "pull" is a wrong thing to use here.

    $ git fetch --update-head-ok ../dump.dmp refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*

would be one way. Or you could just use the dumpfile as if it were a normal remote and say (without running "git init")

    $ git clone dump.dmp undump

to extract it in a new directory "undump" (this may require your dumpfile created with HEAD, though).