Re: Why is git clone not checking out files?

On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 11:04:57 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writes:

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Of course, I do agree that it'sa fairly confusing way to set up a repo, 
and you generally shouldn't do it, but Bill did it that way explicitly. 
Maybe he didn't do it "on purpose", but git at no point in time had any 
way to know that Bill wanted somethign else. Nothing he did was "wrong", 
and it's quite possible that it's what he could have meant to do.

My setup was prompted by advice I got here.  Perhaps I misunderstood.
I thought the way to set up a shared public repo for my collaborators
was to git --bare init-db --shared, then do a git fetch from the upstream
repo.  I want to be able to push into my public repo from one or more
of my private repos, hence the need (I was told) for he bare option.

Anyway, it's certainly easy to fix. Bill, you can either:

- just rename the "topic" branch to "master"

I don't think I want this.  I want to know I'm on the topic branch of
that repo, anything else really makes me nervous.

- change the HEAD to point to "topic" rather than "master".

Same for this...[Thanks for the advice, nevertheless.]

I wonder if the original repo I pulled from is just messed up.  Ahh --
I see Shawn just replied saying I needed to fetch in a different way.
I shall peruse that and report clarity of vision when achieved...


Bill