Ubuntu – git branch not showing branches in terminal

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I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and Git 2.7.4.

I just did git init and then git branch but nothing appears at all:

~/node/uui$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/alex/node/uui/.git/
~/node/uui$ git branch
~/node/uui$

I'm really puzzled. What could be the problem?

Best Answer

You need to make at least one commit before you can see the master branch listed by the git branch command.

Environment variable

From Git version 2.3.0, you can use the environment variable GIT_SSH_COMMAND and pass the -v verbose argument like this:

GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -v" git clone example

To be extra verbose, make it -vvv:

GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -vvv" git clone example

Git config

From Git version 2.10.0, which will in Ubuntu 17.04's repos, you can save this configuration globally, or per repo as in this example:

git config core.sshCommand "ssh -vvv"
git pull

Ubuntu – Git – URL does not appear to be a git repository

gertvdijk's suggestion was right.

Instead of 181.910.139.164/var/wwww/my_really_cool_project/.git I should have used 181.910.139.164:/var/wwww/my_really_cool_project/.git. As you can see I added a colon.

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