Hello Junio, > ... well that was my initial guess, but even after setting up such a > funny repository by hand, I cannot seem to reproduce it. This was on a fresh clone. What I did was: (s017241) [/usr/src] git clone 131.188.30.102:/scratch/tg/linux-2.6/ Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/src/linux-2.6/.git/ remote: Generating pack... remote: Done counting 496189 objects. remote: Deltifying 496189 objects... remote: 100% (496189/496189) done Indexing 496189 objects... remote: Total 496189 (delta 401610), reused 496189 (delta 401610) 100% (496189/496189) done Resolving 401610 deltas... 100% (401610/401610) donedone fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD I see it. Last line. I tried to clone from a repository which itself had a detached HEAD. Could that be the problem? Thomas - 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