FSO git - warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

[Rod Whitby]

Leonti Bielski wrote:
> Hello! I'm trying to checkout fso, to build it for developing.
> I run:
> git clone http://git.freesmartphone.org/fso-makefile common

The command in the Makefile is:

git clone git://git.freesmartphone.org/fso-makefile.git common

(you're missing a .git on the end of the URL, but since you'd get a
different error message if you were really using that command I'll
assume it's a typo).

> (I'm behind proxy),

I'm assuming that's why you're using http:// instead of git://

> and I get:
> warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.
> 
> What does it mean? How to solve it?

No idea.  When I try the same I get:

> git clone http://git.freesmartphone.org/fso-makefile.git common
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/rwhitby/test/common/.git/
> Cannot get remote repository information.
> Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?

So it seems that either http:// access is not supported on that repo on
git.freesmartphone.org or Mickey has to do some magic there to enable it
or maybe the URL is different for http:// access vs git:// access ...

Mickey?

-- Rod