# [PATCH] git-clone: Make sure the master branch exists before running cat on it.

1 messages from 2007-01-09 to 2007-01-09. Participants: Alexandre Julliard.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/6314

## Alexandre Julliard, 2007-01-09 20:26

Subject: [PATCH] git-clone: Make sure the master branch exists before running cat on it.
Message-ID: <87bql80wvn.fsf@wine.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87bql80wvn.fsf%40wine.dyndns.org

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Otherwise we get an error like this on stderr:

  cat: [...]/.git/refs/remotes/origin/master: No such file or directory

which makes it look like git-clone failed.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
---
 git-clone.sh |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-clone.sh b/git-clone.sh
index 3d388de..cf761b2 100755
--- a/git-clone.sh
+++ b/git-clone.sh
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ then
 	# The name under $remote_top the remote HEAD seems to point at.
 	head_points_at=$(
 		(
-			echo "master"
+			test -f "$GIT_DIR/$remote_top/master" && echo "master"
 			cd "$GIT_DIR/$remote_top" &&
 			find . -type f -print | sed -e 's/^\.\///'
 		) | (
-- 
1.4.4.4.g37ed

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard@winehq.org

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