"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have a tree where I checked out a remote, without > creating a local branch, this detaches the HEAD: > # git branch > * (no branch) > master > #git log|head -1 > commit cec64082f689f949a397cb9b39423dc41545fa0e > #git log master..HEAD|head -1 > commit cec64082f689f949a397cb9b39423dc41545fa0e > > > Now if I try to clone it: > #git clone -n lab:/home/mst/scm/linux > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/mst/scm/linux/.git/ > remote: Counting objects: 1693446, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (277054/277054), done. > Receiving objects: 100% (1693446/1693446), 418.16 MiB | 7.63 MiB/s, > done. > remote: Total 1693446 (delta 1414353), reused 1681280 (delta 1402358) > Resolving deltas: 100% (1414353/1414353), done. > error: Trying to write ref HEAD with nonexistant object > cec64082f689f949a397cb9b39423dc41545fa0e > fatal: Cannot update the ref 'HEAD'. > > Looks like a bug, doesn't it? Which git version? IIRC there was some bugfix recently in that area... -- Jakub Narebski -- 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