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Re: strange "git clone" behavior wrt an active branch

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SBSanti Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date
Sep 28, 2008, 12:37 UTC
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On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi All,
> I am using the latest stable version git-1.6.0.2.
>
> The man page for git-clone states explicitly that "git clone"
>
> " Clones a repository into a newly created directory, ...[snip]...
>  and creates and checks out an initial branch equal to the
>  cloned repository's currently active branch. "
>
> I noticed that while my active branch "My" happens to point to the
> same commit as the "master" the git clone will check out master
> instead of My (currently active branch). Is it a bug?
>

Currently it is only guessed which is the active branch (with a preference for the master branch as it is the default), as the current protocol does not allow tranfering the ref links:

$ git ls-remote $url $sha1 HEAD $sha1 $branchname ...

instead of: ref: refs/heads/master HEAD $sha1 $branchname ...

So, I think it is a current limitation that maybe should be documented.

HTH, Santi

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