> git start master I've been using git for years, and can't find documentation f...

yissp · on Oct 3, 2020

The configure.sh script you run at the start creates a few aliases (start, verify, exercises). See https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fracz/git-exercises/master...

dengsauve · on Oct 3, 2020

Thank you for posting this, when I cloned the repo initially from the site, configure.sh was not included.

kubanczyk · on Oct 3, 2020

Yup, the initial `git clone` is checking out detached head 71c5f2d08f23d30c6fc11ac71d65f683b326c844.

It looks like the remote bare repo has a botched HEAD.

Workaround:

    cd exercises
    git checkout master
    ./configure.sh
    git start

toyg · on Oct 4, 2020

> It looks like the remote bare repo has a botched HEAD.

So the guy teaching us git has a messed-up git repo...?

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cgriswald · on Oct 3, 2020

From the site:

> And the git start?

> That is the first alias configured by the script described above. It initializes the first exercise that is on master branch. Read the instructions and solve it!