I get the same result with 1.6.1. I had tried the 1.6.2 just as a guess along with a variety of other versions. Sorry that I posted the wrong command line when I asked the questions. I'm guessing it is a git config issue, but I don't have a clue on where to look. There is not of lot of content in my gitconfig so I assume I am running with mostly defaults.
jgaer@ljgaer1_/data/grpc: git clone -b v1.6.1 https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java Initialized empty Git repository in /data/grpc/grpc-java/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 52663, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (30/30), done. remote: Total 52663 (delta 7), reused 22 (delta 1), pack-reused 52621 Receiving objects: 100% (52663/52663), 17.75 MiB | 694 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (21774/21774), done. warning: Remote branch v1.6.1 not found in upstream origin, using HEAD instead -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "grpc.io" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to grpc-io+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to grpc-io@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/grpc-io. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/cacb50a1-7287-4627-ab0c-d680ee270b67%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.