still getting used to git, using source tree as the Git client.
I have a Git repo that has the master branch checked out.
I had two clones of this repo.
Today origin/Head magically appeared in one of them.
So I cloned the repo again to see if origin/HEAD would appear again, it did.
In the new repo origin/HEAD points to origin/master, as I would expect.
In the original repo origin/HEAD points to a different branch. ie origin/my_branch.
What could have happened to make origin/HEAD appear? From what I have read origin/HEAD should point to the checked out branch in the origin, why would it be pointing to a different branch?
How can I make origin/HEAD point to where I think it should be pointing? Can I remove origin/HEAD without making changes to the origin? should I not care and ignore this inconsisitence?
have I got this all totally wrong?
Thanks!
As mentioned in git remote set-head
, origin/HEAD
is the default branch (ie the target of the symbolic-ref refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD
) for the named remote.
You can remove it without changing the remote repo itself, since it is a local reference to your remote default branch.
See " How does origin/HEAD get set? ".
It can be set/updated with a git remote set-head origin -a
, which is what you need to do to update it in your first repo.
It is set automatically on a git clone
.
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