From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Subject: Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:22:31 -0600
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[I sent a few mistakes --- edited below.]
On Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 14:16:45 (-0600) Bill Lear writes:
>...
>Well, here's what we'd like:
>
>% mkdir new_repo
>% cd new_repo
>% git --bare init
>
>[on another machine:]
>% git clone git://host/new_repo
>% cd new_repo
>% git init
[No git init would be needed here, obviously.]
>[add content]
>% git commit -a -m "Initial stuff"
>% git push
>
>So, this is hard work, and other priorities intrude.  Ok.
>
>Instead, we have to 1) figure out how to do this right, because it's
>difficult to remember and not intuitive, and 2) once we have "figured
>it out", really figure it out, because there are a few gotchas:
>
>% mkdir new_repo
>% cd new_repo
>% git --bare init
>
>% mkdir new_repo
>% cd new_repo
[git init is needed here...]
>[add content]
>% git commit -a -m "Initial stuff"
>% git config remote.origin.url git://host/new_repo
>% git push
>[ach! fails!  what's up??]
>[poke, read, poke some more, try other things..]
>[try setting the remote.origin.fetch?  No, that doesn't work]
>[try setting branch.master.remote?  Just edit by hand??]
>% git push master
>[fails again; read some more; think, think, think...]
>% git push origin master
>[aha! finally it works]
>...

Sorry for the sloppiness.


Bill