Re: Why is git clone not checking out files?

Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote:

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% 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".

quoted

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. 

...so "git clone" tries to checkout HEAD -> refs/heads/master
branch, which does not exist. It is strange that git does not
report error or at least warning, though...

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland