[sr #110623] ‘remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref’ messagen when trying to check out Git repository

[Karl Ove Hufthammer]

URL:
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                 Summary: ‘remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref’ messagen
when trying to check out Git repository
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: huftis
            Submitted on: Sun 27 Mar 2022 08:49:59 PM CEST
                Category: Source code repositories - anonymous access
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
        Originator Email: 
        Operating System: GNU/Linux
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

I have added a Git repository for my project (converted form an old Subversion
repository):

https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/ordbanken.git/?h=main

I have managed to push data to the repository, but this command

git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/ordbanken.git

fails/ends with the following message:

  warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

And although a bunch of data is downloaded, no files are checked out. (I’m
left with an empty directory.)

I think this is *might* be related to the fact that the default (and only)
branch name for the repository is ‘main’, not ‘master’. Could you
please fix this, e.g., by updating HEAD on the server to point to the
‘main’ branch?




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