From: Bastien Nocera on
gitlab.com
https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/issues/32#note_458163750
After checking out a fork of `kernel-ark`, I'd get warnings about the
`master` branch not existing:
```sh
$ make dist-srpm
make -C redhat dist-srpm
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/hadess/Projects/kernel/kernel-
ark/redhat'
fatal: Not a valid object name master
BUILDID is ".test".
cd /home/hadess/Projects/kernel/kernel-ark/redhat/configs; rm -f
kernel-*.config \
kernel-*.config.orig \
kernel-*.config.tmp
Gathering new log entries since 52c12966bf0ed365f95a3c3e6191a479d83d9d46
fatal: bad revision '^master'
Creating linux-20201201git4b68483108eb.tar.xz...
MARKER is 4b68483108eb
fatal: ambiguous argument 'master..': unknown revision or path not in
the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
...
```