On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:46:52 +0000, Andreas Krey wrote: ... > I have a strange behaviour from a bare repo I inherited; > when I clone from that one (ssh) the branch checked out > is *not* the one referenced in HEAD in the remote repo, I now have a sample repo that reproduces this behaviour. Unpack tar file, clone, see clone having 'wrong' branch checked out, apparently independent of the transport: wget http://abox.h.apk.li/clot.tar tar xvf clot.tar (cd clot && git branch -a) # Current branch is 'r1' git clone clot c1 (cd c1 && git branch -a) # Current branch is 'aa'? Same with git v1.7.1.x and v1.8.4. Andreas -- "Totally trivial. Famous last words." From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800 -- 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