On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 02:26:48PM -0500, Nathan W. Panike wrote: > 1. If $GIT_DIR/<name> exists, that is what you mean > (this is usually useful only for HEAD, FETCH_HEAD, ORIG_HEAD, > MERGE_HEAD and CHERRY_PICK_HEAD); > 2. otherwise, refs/<name> if it exists; > 3. otherwise, refs/tags/<refname> if it exists; > 4. otherwise, refs/heads/<name> if it exists; > 5. otherwise, refs/remotes/<name> if it exists; > 6. otherwise, refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD if it exists. > ... > > Is there any way to change this behavior, e.g., so that rule 6 becomes > an error? Say, by setting a config option? You can remove the remote HEAD reference with: git remote set-head origin -d That will only fix that particular repo, though. There is no config option to disable it for all newly cloned repos. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html