HEAD is your currently checked out branch. If the repo is bare, HEAD really
has no meaning. However, git-clone will use the remote HEAD to create and
checkout a branch after it fetches, even if the remote is a bare repo.
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Yuval Kogman <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I forked git.git and subsequently removed all the branches I won't
> actually work with from my fork (master, next, pu, man, html...),
> leaving just my topic branches.
>
> Unfortunately the HEAD ref is also gone (i suspect it was removed when
> I removed 'master').
>
> Now I get the following error:
>
> fatal: Couldn't find remote ref HEAD
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>
> Unfortunately I don't know how to update the 'HEAD' reference.
> Presumably it should point at my most recent branch or something?
>
> >
>
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