On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 07:00:05PM -0700, Christopher wrote: > Hi I've cloned a repository but I'm not seeing the cloned files in my local > repository ?
Hi! I can think of two possibilities. An unlikely one is that for some reason you've cloned the repository using the "--bare" and/or "--mirror" command-line option. In this case the resulting repository ended up being "bare"; bare repositories do not have an area containing the checked out files — instead, they contain the Git object database right at their top level directory. Since the object database does not keep the files committed to the repository "as is", this could explain why you see no files in the clone. A supposedly more likely case is a bit harder to explain. When you call the `git clone` command without supplying it the "--branch" command-line option, the local Git asks the remote repository about the branch it considers to be "current". Having figured that out, that branch is also made current (and checked out) in the local repository. In most repositories used for centralized access (such as those repos served by Github, Bitbucket etc) the current branch is "master" but 1) it's possible to change that, and 2) when you clone a regular non-bare repository the current branch is the one which is currently checked out there. So, if for some reason the current branch of the repository you've cloned contained no files in its tip commit, that state was faithfully reproduced in the local repository created by the `git clone` command. To check whether this is indeed the case, you can run git branch -r -v in the resulting repository. Look for the branch named "origin/HEAD" in the left column as this is what defines "the current branch" in the source repository. The material in [1] should have you covered on how Git manages branches it grabs from a remote repository when cloning it and/or fetching from it. 1. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Remote-Branches -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
