From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:35:20 GMT
Subject: Re: strange behaviour, default branch on clone not as expected
Message-ID: <7vbotygeqv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E89E7E1.4000907@genband.com>

Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com> writes:

> I have a bare repository on a server with (among others) branches
> "atca6900-ecgl" and "ncgl".  The "HEAD" file in the bare repository
> contains "ref: refs/heads/ncgl" and "git branch" in the bare
> repository shows an asterisk beside "ncgl".
>
> However, if I clone the bare repository I get "atca-6900-ecgl" as the
> default branch.  ".git/HEAD" contains "ref: refs/heads/atca6900-ecgl".

If ncgl is at the same commit as the acta one, this is expected. The
protocol does not carry enough information to tell which branch HEAD
points at.