"David Symonds" <dsymonds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Sergei Organov <osv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've just cloned the public repo (it's rather small): >> >> $ git clone http://ydirson.free.fr/soft/git/cvsps.git >> >> and it has created cvsps/.git, but no working copy. > > That's because the remote side doesn't have a HEAD. Just run "git > checkout --track -b master origin/master" to create a local branch the > tracks the origin/master branch. Thanks, that works: $ git checkout --track -b master origin/master warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born. warning: Forcing checkout of origin/master. Already on branch "master" $ Couldn't GIT be more clever and just do this for me? Besides, the fact that it has created HEAD that points nowhere still seems wrong. -- Sergei. - 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
