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I forked and cloned the UnrealEngine repository with the branch selected as Release. The following is the output:

remote: Counting objects: 100% (20158/20158), done. remote: Total 3661983 (delta 20138), reused 20153 (delta 20137), pack-reused 3641825 Connection to github.com closed by remote host. Resolving deltas: 100% (2344882/2344882), done.

The repository seems to have downloaded completely but there is only a .git folder inside it. I also can on running git branch -a it lists no branch and when i ran git checkout master it said - Switched to a new branch 'master'. I also can't click on the branch menu in Github Desktop. What could be the problem?

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  • Does this answer your question? the git clone is empty? why this happens Commented Sep 27, 2021 at 12:08
  • If you give git clone a -b option that points to a tag, you'll get a detached-HEAD checkout in a clone with no branches. That's because all clones (except mirror clones anyway) start out as having no branches: it's the last step of clone, when it runs checkout, where it creates a branch. But -b allows the use of tag names, in which case the checkout step doesn't create any branch. Still, I'd generally expect a project to tag only release commits that do have files in them, so something is probably wrong. Commented Sep 27, 2021 at 20:51
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