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Wrong branch name while recreating the quest 03's repo #9
Description
Quest or cheatsheet
Quest 04
Language
English (EN)
Type of improvement
Missing information
Description
Quest 04 Issue:
- Step 03: If I recreate the quest 03 repo within quest 04 as suggested, the command
git push origine mainreturnserror: failed to push some refs to '../archive-centrale.git'. This suggests thatgit initcreated amasterbranch by default, notmain.
Fix:
cd mon-archive
git branch -M main
git push origine main
- Step 04: the command
git clone ./archive-centrale.git ./clone-depuis-barereturns:
Cloning into './clone-depuis-bare'...
done
warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout
The bare repo still has its HEAD pointing to master (the git init default), but I pushed main. So it can't find the default branch.
Fix:
git -C ./archive-centrale.git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/main
rm -rf ./clone-depuis-bare
git clone ./archive-centrale.git ./clone-depuis-bare
Step 05 checks returned the following for mon-archive, ma-copie and clone-depuis-bare (respectively):
d2a462c (HEAD -> main, origine/main) Premier parchemin
d2a462c (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) Premier parchemin
d2a462c (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD) Premier parchemin
verifier.sh still validated the quest, so it's all good in the end ^^
Activity
Dxsk commentedon Apr 11, 2026
Hey @MurphyTheMoody, thanks a lot for the super detailed report! You nailed a real problem here.
You actually spotted two things at once:
git initdefault branch situation (master vs main) and guide students through the branch rename before pushing.verifier.shitself. The current checks are mostly structural (does the folder exist, is it a git repo, is there a remote) but they never validate the actual names. That is why your setup passed even though you hadma-copieonmaster, the remote namedorigine(typo) instead oforigin, and a bare repo with a dangling HEAD. The verifier simply was not looking at any of that.We just did a full audit of all 20 verifier scripts and quest 04 is one of the worst offenders, along with a few others (09, 12, 17, 19). Thanks to your report, we are going to tighten things up so that students get a clear failure (or at least a loud warning) when their state drifts from what the quest teaches, rather than a silent green check.
Tracking this as a bug, will update here once the fix lands. Really appreciate you taking the time to write all that up, it made the problem obvious and actionable.
fix(quest-04): enforce remote name, branch, and cross-repo consistency
fix(quest-04): replace origine with origin in code blocks
feat(lint): add lint-content target for git command regression preven…
fix(verifiers): rigor sweep + Murphy issue #9 response (#10)
Dxsk commentedon Apr 16, 2026
Hey @MurphyTheMoody, everything you spotted is now fixed on `main` and packaged in the rolling release:
Sorry for the wait. Rather than shipping a one-line fix for quest 04, I took the time to sweep every quest verifier and every `git init` / remote / branch-name instruction on the critical path, so the same class of bug does not bite the next apprentice somewhere else. That turned into PR #10 with 27 commits across quests 01-20, but the core fixes that unblock your exact scenario are in the Phase A commits.
Next time you spot a typo or glitch, I will ship the fix much faster. Don't wait on a big sweep - open a fresh issue and it will get its own quick PR. :)
Thanks again for the detailed repro in the original report, that is exactly what made the full audit possible.