Re: committing to a checked out branch

[Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Jeff Brown <jeff@jeffandbetsy.net> wrote:
> When I create a new repo on my server I have been creating an empty
> directory, then git init, then git add some file and commit.  I expect
> that is the long/wrong way to initialize a repo, especially if I want
> it to be bare.  What is the best approach to creating a cloneable bare
> repo?

server$ mkdir /path/to/newrepo.git
server$ cd /path/to/newrepo.git && git init --bare
laptop$ git clone ssh://server/path/to/newrepo.git
laptop$ cd newrepo
laptop$ # add; commit; add; commit; ...
laptop$ git push origin master

(This may only work with recent versions of git as I believe earlier
versions used to complain about cloning an empty repository.)

j.