On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 06:11:22PM +0000, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > > You'd have refs under refs/heads at this point. They were created > > when you did the original bare clone (since bare clones fetch all > > heads to start with, though they don't set up a refspec). > > I see the refs under refs/heads at last! > > My mistake was looking for them in the file system (instead of in file > ‘packed-refs’). The best way to check is "git for-each-ref", which handles the storage details (including if we ever move to a new storage mechanism like reftable). > The problem was in my partial understanding of the consequences of > passing option --bare to ‘git clone’ (and in my not thinking to look > in file ‘packed-refs’). To be fair, I usually have to double-check the rules for "--bare" myself. :) Glad everything is working now. -Peff