apologies for a typo: all paths written with ./git, meant to be .git On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 8:51 AM Irina Gulina <igulina@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thank you for filling out a Git bug report! > Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue. > > What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) > 1. create an empty directory in CLI: mkdir test_repo > 2. convert it to a git directory: cd test_repo & git init > 3. 'git status' will say you are "On branch master" > 4. 'git branch', 'git branch --all', or 'git branch --list' - nothing > will say the master branch exists. And per man pages definition the > branch command displays existing branches. So the question is why 'git > status' says "On branch master", but 'git branches' don't? > 5. check on 'ls -la ./git/branches' - it's empty > 6. check on 'ls -la ./git/refs/heads' - it's empty > 7. check on 'cat ./git/HEAD' - it shows 'ref: refs/heads/master' - > why? if we didn't create any commit, and no branch exists? > > What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) > git status should not say "On branch master", cat ./git/HEAD should be > empty. Or the master branch should be created in ./git/branches and > the 'git branch' command should display it. > > What happened instead? (Actual behavior) > Inconsistency between 'git status', 'git branch', ./git/branches and ./git/HEAD > > What's different between what you expected and what actually happened? > > Anything else you want to add: > > Please review the rest of the bug report below. > You can delete any lines you don't wish to share. > > > [System Info] > git version: > git version 2.41.0 > cpu: x86_64 > no commit associated with this build > sizeof-long: 8 > sizeof-size_t: 8 > shell-path: /bin/sh > uname: Linux 6.4.12-200.fc38.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Aug 23 > 17:46:49 UTC 2023 x86_64 > compiler info: gnuc: 13.1 > libc info: glibc: 2.37 > $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/bash > > > [Enabled Hooks]
