From: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'Alex Marginean'" <alexmarginean16@gmail.com>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: BUG
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 12:02:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <037901d6b2cc$5362e170$fa28a450$@nexbridge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALG6MqwdCmwS5D_F9+q6UYzGm5ZzLL7Bi=rD7Ph2XE0uccu+xg@mail.gmail.com>
On November 4, 2020 11:10 AM, Alex Marginean wrote:
> Github has changed the way they name branches, so now instead of the
> `master` branch there is the `main` branch however, I'm having some trouble
> with the naming
>
> **Steps to replicate my problem**
>
> 1. Create a new Github repository and make sure the default branch is `main`
> 2. Add something to the repo, a `README.md` file should be enough 3.
> Instead of cloning the repo make a new directory with your repo's name
> `mkdir <repo_name>` and change the directory to it `cd <repo_name>` 4. `git
> init` 5. Add the remote repo with `git remote add origin <repo_link>` 6. Pull
> the `main` branch from the remote repo with `git pull origin main`.
Use git init --initial-branch=main
This assumes a recent version of git.
>
> After the step number 6. instead of my branch changing to `main` my current
> branch is changed to `master` which has every file and change of the branch
> `main`. This is a real problem because if I try to push changes to `main`
> although my current branch shows up as `master` it creates another branch
> called `master` on Github and the `main` remains unchanged. Yeah sure I can
> `git checkout main` after that and make my changes there but I'm not sure
> why it defaults to `master` and copies `main` from Github into local branch
> `master`.
>
> P.S. If you were to use `git fetch origin` instead of `git pull origin
> <branch_name> and then manually change branch to `main` with `git
> checkout main` it would work. Also, if you were to clone the Github repo
> using `git clone <link>` you will get the correct current branch that is `main`.
Regards,
Randall
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Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-04 16:10 BUG Alex Marginean
2020-11-04 17:02 ` Randall S. Becker [this message]
2020-11-04 17:54 ` BUG Randall S. Becker
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