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Subject: Re: git init doesn't create master branch
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 15:01:11 +0200
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Thanks for clarifying this thing for me! I don't really insist on havin=
g=20
a master branch it's just that I tried to pull from a repository bundle=
=20
and I got this error message:

"Cannot merge multiple branches into empty head"

The command was:

git pull ../dump.dmp refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*

Is this a better way of doing this?

Thanks,
=C3=81kos

2013.05.29. 14:54 keltez=C3=A9ssel, Ramkumar Ramachandra =C3=ADrta:
> Matthieu Moy wrote:
>>> the manual of git init says: "An initial HEAD file that references =
the
>>> HEAD of the master branch is also created."
>>>
>>> However, after creating the repository using git init there's no
>>> master branch.
>> Right, but HEAD still points to it ;-). We sometimes call this an
>> "unborn branch".
> Right.  Let me also add that our prompt has support for this; on an
> unborn branch, my prompt looks like:
>
> artagnon|master#:/tmp/foo$
>                 ^
> 	       the # indicates unborn branch
>
> Please consider using contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh to make your l=
ife easier.