Re: strange behaviour, default branch on clone not as expected

Chris Friesen [off-list ref] writes:

I have a bare repository on a server with (among others) branches
"atca6900-ecgl" and "ncgl".  The "HEAD" file in the bare repository
contains "ref: refs/heads/ncgl" and "git branch" in the bare
repository shows an asterisk beside "ncgl".

However, if I clone the bare repository I get "atca-6900-ecgl" as the
default branch.  ".git/HEAD" contains "ref: refs/heads/atca6900-ecgl".

If ncgl is at the same commit as the acta one, this is expected. The
protocol does not carry enough information to tell which branch HEAD
points at.