Garbageyard <varuag.chhabra@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > If i now clone the repository on my local machine, then the default branch > should be pointing to mainline and not master. However, the issue is that it > still points to master. Am I /wrong/ in assuming that changing the entry in > file HEAD for a given repository on Git server will change the default > branch while cloning? If I’m wrong, can anyone please tell me how can I > enforce this change on the /server/ side correctly? IIRC, there's a known limitation of the Git protocol which does not transmit symbolic ref over the network. Only the HEAD's sha1 is transmitted and the client guesses which branch should be checked out based on this. But it can guess incorrectly if several branches point to the same commit. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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