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Re: git clone through http bug?

From
David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 14, 2008, 17:36 UTC
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
>  I've just cloned the public repo (it's rather small):
>
>  $ git clone http://ydirson.free.fr/soft/git/cvsps.git
>
>  and it has created cvsps/.git, but no working copy.

That's because the remote side doesn't have a HEAD. Just run "git checkout --track -b master origin/master" to create a local branch the tracks the origin/master branch.

Dave.
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