Git remote has master but no HEAD

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Published on 2010-03-09T13:46:39Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 18:03 UTC
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I'm new to Git, so I suspect that I'm misunderstanding something here, but I'll ask anyway.

Via TortoiseGit I do the following:

Init a new Git repo locally
Add a readme file to it and commit
Add a new remote
Push the new repo to the orgin (remote)

If I then Browse Refs I see the following:
heads/master
remotes/origin/master

What I find odd is that I don't see a HEAD on the remotes.

If I delete my local repo and then clone it from the server (I just pushed to above) and then browse the refs I see:
heads/master
remotes/origin/HEAD
remotes/origin/master

So why don't I see a remote head after the initial push?

NB. I've done the same via Git Bash command (ie. not Tortoise Git) and am seeing the same thing.

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