On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 02:08:33AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote: > "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... Sorry, forgot to mention that. It's pretty recent: $ git --version git version 1.7.9.111.gf3fb0 > -- > 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