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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Félix Saparelli" <felix@passcod.name>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Non-Bug] cloning a repository with a default MASTER branch tries to check out the master branch
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 12:40:36 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa864mea3.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACQm2Y1QtKD3M6weNhGrAQSLV8hLF4pKcpHDD7iUc78aWrt6Cw@mail.gmail.com> (=?utf-8?Q?=22F=C3=A9lix?= Saparelli"'s message of "Tue, 23 May 2017 09:42:12 +1200")

Félix Saparelli <felix@passcod.name> writes:

> I created a git repository that, for joke reasons, has a single branch
> called MASTER (in uppercase). Upon cloning this repo, git attempts to
> checkout the master branch (in lowercase), which does not exist.

See what Git told you carefully and you can guess, I think.

> $ git clone git@github.com:passcod/UPPERCASE-NPM.git
> Cloning into 'UPPERCASE-NPM'...
> remote: Counting objects: 14, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.
> remote: Total 14 (delta 3), reused 14 (delta 3), pack-reused 0
> Receiving objects: 100% (14/14), done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (3/3), done.
> warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

So you have MASTER but not master, but your HEAD still is pointing
at non-existing master.  As HEAD is the way the remote tells the
clone what the default branch to be checked out is, the command
reports "we cannot do a checkout of the default branch."


  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-23  3:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-22 21:42 [Bug] cloning a repository with a default MASTER branch tries to check out the master branch Félix Saparelli
2017-05-23  3:40 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-05-23 23:24   ` [Non-Bug] " Philip Oakley
2017-05-24 14:19     ` Jeff King
2017-05-25  1:36       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-25  3:13         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-25 15:59           ` Jeff King
2017-05-25 19:11             ` Jeff King
2017-05-25 23:28               ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-26 20:00               ` Philip Oakley
2017-05-26 21:17                 ` Philip Oakley
2017-05-27 23:55                 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-28 11:21                   ` Philip Oakley
2017-05-28 12:57                     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-31  4:43                     ` Jeff King
2017-05-23  8:01 ` [Bug] " Samuel Lijin
2017-05-23 12:12   ` Jeff King

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