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From: asymptosis <asymptosis@posteo.net>
To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: "Björn Kautler" <Bjoern@kautler.net>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bug when cloning a repository with a default branch called HEAD
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 04:37:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YLRoAIBExd+dAe0C@sleipnir.acausal.realm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07edafe5-d0a2-4a2c-12a2-28c163f6fdda@gmail.com>

>I'm trying to create minimal reproducible test repo by switching 
>initial branch to HEAD:
>
>$ mkdir shark && cd shark
>$ git init
>$ git checkout -b HEAD
>
> /snip
>
>The remote [1] might misconfigured default branch, so instead of 
>master/main it pointed to HEAD, and it caused the issue.

Hi Bagas,

I think he meant the remote had its default branch set to HEAD before he tried cloning. I.e. reproducing the error would look something more like this:

#! /bin/bash
remote_repo=/tmp/remote
local_repo=/tmp/local
mkdir $remote_repo
cd $remote_repo
git init -b HEAD
touch README
git add -A && git commit -m "Initial commit"
cd ..
git clone $remote_repo $local_repo


For me, the generated /tmp/local repo does issue warnings about ambiguous HEAD ref. However, it still works, and I don't get the wild errors like reported by Björn.

I suspect it's something to do with the implementation on the local OS. I'm on Linux and it seems like Björn is using Windows.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-31  4:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-28 19:05 Bug when cloning a repository with a default branch called HEAD Björn Kautler
2021-05-31  4:01 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-31  4:37   ` asymptosis [this message]
     [not found]     ` <CAKChYSrQ3u3yH0+8Fwj-84cnAFGvuSEPHx+5Mcy8Ys4sXcN14A@mail.gmail.com>
2021-05-31 20:38       ` Fwd: " Björn Kautler
2021-05-31 20:45         ` Randall S. Becker
     [not found]           ` <CAKChYSpjOZa2F_mE_7--htzaQ1V4zWgYi8Wm4GHOiYnWoAiswA@mail.gmail.com>
2021-05-31 20:57             ` Björn Kautler

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