Package: git-core Version: 1:1.5.4.4-1 Severity: minor The recommended (only?) way to publish a git repository to a remote server is to run "git init --bare" on the remote, add the remote to the local ..git/config and then do a "git push --all remote".
However, if the local repository does not contain a branch called "master", then the resulting remote repository is not clonable. When cloning, git downloads the objects, but then fails with: cat: <local-repo>/.git/refs/remotes/origin/master: No such file or directory Warning: Remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout. This apparently cannot be fixed locally, the only way to clone the repo from the remote server is to edit the remote *.git/HEAD file to point to a valid branch. It would be nice if git could make the remote HEAD point to something valid after pushing. Teemu -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages git-core depends on: ii cpio 2.9-11 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.18.0-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra ii libdigest-sha1-perl 2.11-2 NIST SHA-1 message digest algorith ii liberror-perl 0.17-1 Perl module for error/exception ha ii libexpat1 1.95.8-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii perl-modules 5.8.8-12 Core Perl modules ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime Versions of packages git-core recommends: ii curl 7.18.0-1 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or ii less 418-1 Pager program similar to more ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:4.7p1-4 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh ii patch 2.5.9-4 Apply a diff file to an original ii rsync 3.0.0-2 fast remote file copy program (lik -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
