Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 7, 2007, 11:58 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708071257350.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <f99cem$4a4$1@sea.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

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>  100% (2295/2295) done
> Resolving 1793 deltas...
>  100% (1793/1793) done
> : not a valid SHA1b870df7cde1e05ee76d1d15ea428f
> fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD

I suspect that there is no master branch on the remote side, but the remote's HEAD points there. Try "git ls-remote <url>" to find out.

Ciao, Dscho

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