!Git failed to resolve refish master

The consensus on the ROOL forum seems to be that there is no mature Git client for RISC OS.
Notwithstanding, I have been testing Kevin Swinton’s !Git It provides all I need to manage a project on a local machine. Git init, git add, Git commit, etc work the same as on Rpi Linux.

However, I have had difficulty making it cooperate with GitHub as in the following example:

*git init test
Initialized empty Git repository in test
*dir test
*git config —local user.name “john”
*git config —local user.email “some email address”
*git status

1. On branch Not currently on any branch.
   *git clone https://github.com/riscman/hello-world test
   Cloning into ‘test’…
   remote: Enumerating objects: 46, done.
   remote: Counting objects: 100% (46/46), done.
   remote: Compressing objects: 100% (41/41), done.
   remote: Total 46 (delta 13), reused 7 (delta 2), pack-reused 0
   Receiving objects: 100% (46/46), done.
   Resolving deltas: 100% (13/13), done.
   failed to resolve refish master: revspec ‘master’ not found
   unable to parse some refish
   *
   

I am posting this for general interest and don’t expect much response as it is likely that the set of users of !Git is very small.

ARMX6 RISC OS version 5.29

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you probably didn’t mean to put a real email a public forum…

you probably didn’t mean to put a real email a public forum…

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failed to resolve refish master: revspec ‘master’ not found

Sounds like !Git is hardcoded to assume the “master” branch is the default, instead of using the branch indicated by the server (via the HEAD ref).

You might find that “git checkout main” gets things working (“main” is what modern versions of official git, along with github, gitlab, etc. are now using for the default branch).