Re: Why can't git open empty branches ?

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hadmut Danisch wrote:

> Creating independent branches by pushing two separates into a single
> remote bare is a nice idea, but if I understood git correctly, the very
> first commit in a repos is always to the master branch, where you have
> two masters trying to push into the shared remote bare. This is
> obviously solvable if you use the correct commands and maybe delete and
> re-clone the repos, but this is all overcomplicated and non-trivial.
> Nothing I could do without reading manuals.

I suppose you had to read the manual to learn the "git commit" and
"git branch -m" commands, yes.  But what's wrong with that, or how
could we fix it?

	git init code
	cd code
	... hack away ...
	git remote add origin <url>
	git push -u origin master
	cd ..

	git init website
	cd website
	... hack away ...
	git branch -m website
	git remote add origin <url>
	git push -u origin website
	cd ..

I wonder if there is a potential documentation or error message update
lurking behind these questions.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan