Subject: Re: Remote's 'currently active branch' not HEAD?

From: Andreas Krey <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 14:37:33 +0200

On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:48:31 +0000, Andreas Krey wrote:
...
> I now have a sample repo that reproduces this behaviour.
> Unpack tar file, clone, see clone having 'wrong' branch
> checked out, apparently independent of the transport:

Ouch, it looks like 'git clone' doesn't actually know
the 'current remote branch' but picks one of those that
happen to have the HEAD *commit* as their tip.

At least the 'git clone' doc would be misleading then.

Andreas

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800