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git clone - not getting the correct default branch

From
Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Date
Apr 18, 2012, 13:05 UTC
Message-ID
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A bit weird this.

I have a bare repo (managed with gitolite) which, when I clone it, always comes up with origin/HEAD pointed to origin/master.

This despite the fact that on the repo, HEAD is a symbolic ref to origin/dev.
i.e.
% git clone git@myserver:myrepo
...
% git branch
* master

% ssh myserver % cd /path/to/myrepo.git % cat HEAD ref: refs/heads/dev

What could be going wrong? Other repos don't have this problem.
Both machines are using 1.7.9.4.

Thanks, Luke

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  1. Luke DiamandApr 18, 2012
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