Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> skriver:

> Ricardo Wurmus writes:
>
>> Importing https://github.com/immunogenomics/scpost with the CRAN
>> importer fails, because the git repository does not have an
>> origin/master branch.  This repository only has a “main” branch.
>>
>> Arguably, this shouldn’t matter, but (guix git) has the “master” name
>> set up as the default.  When cloning a repository it may be better to
>> fetch everything and select the default branch — whichever name it may
>> have.
>
> One option may be to use the remote HEAD symref.  That's probably the
> best indicator of what the primary branch is.  In a clone, it doesn't
> necessarily match HEAD on the remote, because users may change it to
> another branch they're interested in, but that isn't really relevant to
> these behind-the-scenes checkouts.
>
> Here's a quick and dirty demo that makes your reproducer work.  A real
> patch in this direction would of course look very different.

Another quick and dirty patch to make this specific example work ...