Re: Why is git clone not checking out files?

Bill Lear [off-list ref] wrote:

% cd /repos/git/project
% GIT_DIR=. git branch
  topic

And then, tried it all again:

% cd ..
% rm -rf project
% mkdir project
% cd project
% git --bare clone --shared
% GIT_DIR=. git fetch git://source/public/project

You did not ask for a tracking branch to be created.  So the
result of your fetch is in FETCH_HEAD only.  Try instead:

GIT_DIR=. git fetch git://source/public/project topic:refs/heads/master

-- 
Shawn.