From: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:05:14 GMT
Subject: git clone - not getting the correct default branch
Message-ID: <CAE5ih7-KmknO8aD=ws-GnUw2RO4fLzscdNYsxkUsFD0Y=28iew@mail.gmail.com>

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