From 21a0cba43e5cc9960fd60f0b3df260d19d26648c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jingfang Liu <jingfangliu@google.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 13:10:11 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix the regression of building remote url (#935)

---
 examples/remoteBuild.md | 2 +-
 pkg/git/cloner.go       | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/examples/remoteBuild.md b/examples/remoteBuild.md
index 747724fca..1e3a42ac7 100644
--- a/examples/remoteBuild.md
+++ b/examples/remoteBuild.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Running `kustomize build` against the url gives the same output.
 
 <!-- @remoteBuild @test -->
 ```
-target=github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize//examples/multibases?ref=v1.0.6
+target=github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize//examples/multibases
 test 3 == \
   $(kustomize build $target | grep cluster-a-.*-myapp-pod | wc -l); \
   echo $?
diff --git a/pkg/git/cloner.go b/pkg/git/cloner.go
index cbf176448..f5d92418f 100644
--- a/pkg/git/cloner.go
+++ b/pkg/git/cloner.go
@@ -68,9 +68,8 @@ func ClonerUsingGitExec(repoSpec *RepoSpec) error {
 			"trouble adding remote %s",
 			repoSpec.CloneSpec())
 	}
-
 	if repoSpec.ref == "" {
-		return nil
+		repoSpec.ref = "master"
 	}
 	cmd = exec.Command(
 		gitProgram,