Re: git clone fails

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:19:40 +0200, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic 
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) wrote:
> Florian Friesdorf <flo@chaoflow.net> skribis:
> 
> > url taken from:
> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/glibc.git
> >
> > $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/hurd/glibc.git
> > Cloning into glibc...
> > remote: Counting objects: 250057, done.
> > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (39390/39390), done.
> > remote: Total 250057 (delta 205903), reused 250013 (delta 205874)
> > Receiving objects: 100% (250057/250057), 71.67 MiB | 1015 KiB/s, done.
> > Resolving deltas: 100% (205903/205903), done.
> > warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.
> 
> (This was a followup to an IRC discussion.)
> 
> Apparently .git/HEAD on the repo refers to an non-existence commit, and
> fixing it would require help from the Savannah admins.  I think
> .git/HEAD should read:
> 
>   ref: refs/heads/tschwinge/Roger_Whittaker
> 
> Thoughts?

There is no branch named ``master'' in the hurd/glibc.git repository, and
after downloading all the stuff, git clone will typicall check out this
branch, which then fails.  But you can check out any other branch: for
example, as Ludo mentioned, my working branch; see
<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/source_repositories/glibc.html>.


Grüße,
 Thomas

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