warning of a detached HEAD when cloning a YODA repo

[alecristia]

I created tsi2017_input as a YODA repo for a paper based on the tsimane2017 dataset. All seemed to be going swimmingly until at some point, I probably did something awful with .gitattributes (at least that's my best guess), because when I try to clone it in a new computer, I get:

$ datalad install -r [email protected]:/LAAC-LSCP/tsi2017_input
[WARNING] remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout                                                             
install(ok): /Users/acristia/Documents/gitrepos/tsi2017_input (dataset)                                                         
[INFO   ] Ensuring presence of Dataset(/Users/acristia/Documents/gitrepos/tsi2017_input) to get /Users/acristia/Documents/gitrepos/tsi2017_input 
[WARNING] AnnexRepo(/Users/acristia/Documents/gitrepos/tsi2017_input/input/tsimane2017) has a detached HEAD, because the target commit b758a549 has no unique ancestor with branch 'main'                                                                       
install(ok): /Users/acristia/Documents/gitrepos/tsi2017_input/input/tsimane2017 (dataset)                                       
action summary:                                                                                                                 
  install (ok: 2)

[LoannPeurey]

The message suggests that when cloning, it is trying to checkout to another branch, that is not available. I think it does not change the fact that the main branch is cloned correctly and can be used without issues

[alecristia]

ah, is it maybe because it's referring to a non-main branch of the tsimane2017 dataset? (I'm using the one that has the 2023 annotations)

[LoannPeurey]

I think you are absolutely right !