From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
Félix Saparelli <felix@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I created a git repository that, for joke reasons, has a single branch
called MASTER (in uppercase). Upon cloning this repo, git attempts to
checkout the master branch (in lowercase), which does not exist.
See what Git told you carefully and you can guess, I think.
guessing is rarely a good user experience ;-) however...
$ git clone git@xxxxxxxxxx:passcod/UPPERCASE-NPM.git
Cloning into 'UPPERCASE-NPM'...
remote: Counting objects: 14, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.
remote: Total 14 (delta 3), reused 14 (delta 3), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (14/14), done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3/3), done.
warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.
Perhaps here the warning message could include the value of the ref provided
by the remote's HEAD which would then more clearly indicate to the user what
was expected.
I haven't had chance to look at how easy that maybe in the code - perhaps a
bit of low hanging fruit for someone?
So you have MASTER but not master, but your HEAD still is pointing
at non-existing master. As HEAD is the way the remote tells the
clone what the default branch to be checked out is, the command
reports "we cannot do a checkout of the default branch."
--
Philip