So the branch renaming broke cloning and checking out code with the most basic git command? At least that's what the side effect seems to me. What's the fix? Or will no one ever be able to say 'git clone' as below and have it just work?
Gary On Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 05:18 Volkan Yazıcı <vol...@yazi.ci> wrote: > We mention the `gitbox` keyword neither in the sources, nor in the docs. > > There is a GitHub link at the top right corner of every page in the > website. > > `pom.xml`s SCM block points to GitHub. > > `CONTRIBUTING.md` only hints to GitHub resources – though I agree there is > no direct link to the repository there. > > I think everybody _assumes_ GitHub is the default repository. Maybe we > should clearly document this. > > Regarding the `nonexistent ref` error you get, we have renamed quite some > branches[1]. In particular, `master` → `main` and `release-2.x` → `2.x`. > > I hope this clarifies things for you. > > [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/41wds37l4xmfzljgsgvplny811wd1v37 > > On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 11:51 PM Gary D. Gregory <ggreg...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Hi All: > > > > My expectation is that: > > > > C:\Users\ggregory\git\a>git clone > > https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/logging-log4j2.git logging-log4j3 > > > > Would clone and checkout master (or main or whatever the default branch > is > > called now) but instead, I get an empty folder and this output: > > > > Cloning into 'logging-log4j3'... > > remote: Enumerating objects: 262413, done. > > remote: Counting objects: 100% (262413/262413), done. > > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (68647/68647), done. > > remote: Total 262413 (delta 127358), reused 256238 (delta 122788) > > Receiving objects: 100% (262413/262413), 38.27 MiB | 11.31 MiB/s, done. > > Resolving deltas: 100% (127358/127358), done. > > warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout > > > > This says nothing to help: > > https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/blob/2.x/BUILDING.md > > and nothing jumps out at me on the main page > > https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/index.html > > > > So... what's the magic missing? > > > > TY! > > Gary > > > > >
