Re: Why is git clone not checking out files?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 30, 2007, 19:15 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701302013420.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <17855.39008.920685.62837@lisa.zopyra.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote:

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> On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 11:04:57 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writes:
> 
> >Anyway, it's certainly easy to fix. Bill, you can either:
> >
> > - just rename the "topic" branch to "master"
> 
> I don't think I want this.  I want to know I'm on the topic branch of 
> that repo, anything else really makes me nervous.

The name in the bare repository does not matter as much as your _local_ name.

> > - change the HEAD to point to "topic" rather than "master".
> 
> Same for this...[Thanks for the advice, nevertheless.]

If you have only _one_ branch in the upstream repo, why don't you let "HEAD" (in that repo) point to that branch, but to a non-existent "master"? That does not make sense.

Ciao, Dscho