Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote: >> >> % cd /repos/git/project >> % ls >> branches description HEAD info refs >> config FETCH_HEAD hooks objects remotes >> % cat HEAD >> ref: refs/heads/master > > Ok, HEAD points to "master". > >> 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 > > ...but you don't _have_ any such branch. You only have a "topic" > branch. ...so "git clone" tries to checkout HEAD -> refs/heads/master branch, which does not exist. It is strange that git does not report error or at least warning, though... -- Jakub Narebski Poland - 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