From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:15:37 GMT Subject: Re: Why is git clone not checking out files? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <17855.39008.920685.62837@lisa.zopyra.com> Hi, On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote: > 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