Re: Why is git clone not checking out files?

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: 2007-01-31 05:22:37
Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:
> Ok, well, I certainly did not issue git clone --bare, it was just a
> plain ol' clone:
> 
> % git clone /repos/git/project
> 
> and no checkout ensued.  Can I fix this somehow?  I've tried the clone
> several times with no success.  Is there anything I can check in the
> source repo (the above /repos/git/project) to see why it would not be
> working?

I've seen this happen if HEAD in the source repository does not point
at a branch, or points at a commit which doesn't exist.  Though I
usually also see an error about how HEAD isn't a valid object name...

-- 
Shawn.
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Received on Wed Jan 31 05:23:17 2007

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