On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 13:22:37 (-0500) Shawn O. Pearce writes: >Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Ok, well, I certainly did not issue git clone --bare, it was just a >> plain ol' clone: >> >> % git clone /repos/git/project >> >> and no checkout ensued. Can I fix this somehow? I've tried the clone >> several times with no success. Is there anything I can check in the >> source repo (the above /repos/git/project) to see why it would not be >> working? > >I've seen this happen if HEAD in the source repository does not point >at a branch, or points at a commit which doesn't exist. Though I >usually also see an error about how HEAD isn't a valid object name... Hmm. % cd /repos/git/project % ls branches description HEAD info refs config FETCH_HEAD hooks objects remotes % cat HEAD ref: refs/heads/master % cat FETCH_HEAD 2ed7b6f672963bab4bad713a71967f683fe01163 branch 'topic' of git://source/public/project 2ed7b6f672963bab4bad713a71967f683fe01163 not-for-merge tag 'fbdev_ref_1' of git://source/public/project This repository was created like this: % mkdir /repos/git/project % cd /repos/git/project % git --bare init-db --shared % GIT_DIR=. git fetch git://xiphi/public/project topic:topic Bill - 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