Re: [Bug] cloning a repository with a default MASTER branch tries to check out the master branch

From: Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com>
Date: May 23, 2017, 08:01 UTC
Message-ID: <CAJZjrdWXsuKrFzedLvyE-1mvD0RC5XYDkmvV3wRNWXjFAVt4iQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACQm2Y1QtKD3M6weNhGrAQSLV8hLF4pKcpHDD7iUc78aWrt6Cw@mail.gmail.com>

For some reason the repo on GH does not have a HEAD pointer:

$ git ls-remote https://github.com/passcod/UPPERCASE-NPM.git efc7dbfd6ca155d5d19ce67eb98603896062f35a refs/heads/MASTER e60ea8e6ec45ec45ff44ac8939cb4105b16477da refs/pull/1/head f35a73dcb151d336dc3d30c9a2c7423ecdb7bd1c refs/pull/2/head 0d9b3a1268ff39350e04a7183af0add912b686e6 refs/tags/V1.0.0 efc7dbfd6ca155d5d19ce67eb98603896062f35a refs/tags/V1.0.1

I'm not sure how you managed to do that, since GH rejects attempts to delete the current branch, but I believe if you set the default branch to MASTER it will work correctly.

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Félix Saparelli <felix@passcod.name> wrote:

Show 42 quoted lines

> Hi,
>
> I created a git repository that, for joke reasons, has a single branch
> called MASTER (in uppercase). Upon cloning this repo, git attempts to
> checkout the master branch (in lowercase), which does not exist.
> Checking out the MASTER branch manually afterwards works.
>
> $ git clone git@github.com:passcod/UPPERCASE-NPM.git
> Cloning into 'UPPERCASE-NPM'...
> remote: Counting objects: 14, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.
> remote: Total 14 (delta 3), reused 14 (delta 3), pack-reused 0
> Receiving objects: 100% (14/14), done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (3/3), done.
> warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.
>
> $ cd UPPERCASE-NPM
> $ ls -a
> . .. .git
> $ git branch
> $ git checkout MASTER
> Branch MASTER set up to track remote branch MASTER from origin.
> Switched to a new branch 'MASTER'
> $ ls -a
> . .. .git NPM package.json README
> $ git branch
> * MASTER
>
> Some platform information:
>
> $ git version
> git version 2.12.2
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux felix-probook 4.10.13-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Apr 27 12:15:09
> CEST 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Git was installed from the default Arch Linux package.
>
> Thanks,
> Félix
>