On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:48:31 +0000, Andreas Krey wrote: ... > 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: Ouch, it looks like 'git clone' doesn't actually know the 'current remote branch' but picks one of those that happen to have the HEAD *commit* as their tip. At least the 'git clone' doc would be misleading then. 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