% cd /repos/git/project
% ls
branches description HEAD info refs
config FETCH_HEAD hooks objects remotes
% cat HEAD
ref: refs/heads/master
Ok, HEAD points to "master".
This repository was created like this:
% mkdir /repos/git/project
% cd /repos/git/project
% git --bare init-db --shared
% GIT_DIR=. git fetch git://xiphi/public/project topic:topic
...but you don't _have_ any such branch. You only have a "topic" branch.
Linus