> Having for a long time been thoroughly annoyed by our strict umasks, I
> decided to write a little program to deal with it, and naturally I put
> it in a git repo. After the initial commit
> (c0fa1db09bad112f7271378d907bf33d74c06f6b) I published it to my git
> space on our development server and cloned it out again (to get the
> nifty remotes things set up for free).
>
> Then I noticed I had rushed it, as I usually do with hacks involving a
> total of less than 200 lines of code, so I had to make a couple of more
> commits to make it work.
>
> After having pushed the fixes to the public site I went to have a look
> at it in gitweb, at
https://devel.op5.se/~exon/git/
>
> I was quite surprised to find that 'master' was still pointing to the
> root commit. After the usual culprits were excluded (permissions, bad
> paths, whatnot), I decided to try to clone the repo again to a different
> location.
>
> Here's what happened:
>
> devel!exon:~$ git clone softpub/mkpub.git/ mkpub
> remote: Generating pack...
> remote: Done counting 17 objects.
> remote: Deltifying 17 objects.
> remote: 100% (17/17) done
> Indexing 17 objects.
> remote: Total 17 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0)
> 100% (17/17) done
> Resolving 3 deltas.
>
> devel!exon:~$ cat softpub/mkpub.git/refs/heads/master
> c0fa1db09bad112f7271378d907bf33d74c06f6b
> devel!exon:~$ cat mkpub/.git/refs/heads/master
> 5ba01a4709bcc8b482b207ba91d78ddb689a4091
> devel!exon:~$ cd mkpub/
> devel!exon:~/mkpub$ git push
> Everything up-to-date
> devel!exon:~/mkpub$ git rev-list master
> 5ba01a4709bcc8b482b207ba91d78ddb689a4091
> e6a80831737517aa7ef29628429a18935b71de1d
> 8926e1519f69d95685ab5252886e7b237e21108e
> c0bfedaf572ee550af7927acb89a1a2e01c1ef2c
> c0fa1db09bad112f7271378d907bf33d74c06f6b
> devel!exon:~/mkpub$ GIT_DIR=../softpub/mkpub.git/ git rev-list master
> c0fa1db09bad112f7271378d907bf33d74c06f6b
>
> (yes, the repo only has 4 commits)
>
> And that's where I am now. Note that *cloning* from the repo actually
> works, although I can't for the life of me figure out why.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
