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Re: [Non-Bug] cloning a repository with a default MASTER branch tries to check out the master branch

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 23, 2017, 03:40 UTC
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Félix Saparelli <felix@passcod.name> writes:
> I created a git repository that, for joke reasons, has a single branch
> called MASTER (in uppercase). Upon cloning this repo, git attempts to
> checkout the master branch (in lowercase), which does not exist.
See what Git told you carefully and you can guess, I think.
Show 8 quoted lines
> $ git clone git@github.com:passcod/UPPERCASE-NPM.git
> Cloning into 'UPPERCASE-NPM'...
> remote: Counting objects: 14, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.
> remote: Total 14 (delta 3), reused 14 (delta 3), pack-reused 0
> Receiving objects: 100% (14/14), done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (3/3), done.
> warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

So you have MASTER but not master, but your HEAD still is pointing at non-existing master. As HEAD is the way the remote tells the clone what the default branch to be checked out is, the command reports "we cannot do a checkout of the default branch."

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  1. Félix SaparelliMay 22, 2017
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 23, 2017
  3. Philip OakleyMay 23, 2017
  4. Jeff KingMay 24, 2017
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2017
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2017
  7. Jeff KingMay 25, 2017
  8. Jeff KingMay 25, 2017
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2017
  10. Philip OakleyMay 26, 2017
  11. Philip OakleyMay 26, 2017
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 27, 2017
  13. Philip OakleyMay 28, 2017
  14. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2017
  15. Jeff KingMay 31, 2017
  16. Samuel LijinMay 23, 2017
  17. Jeff KingMay 23, 2017

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