From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Brown Subject: Re: committing to a checked out branch Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 12:01:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: <76718490905181917u1f41e06dq9cf527a1dac9bea5@mail.gmail.com> <76718490905190821p1776905bn53610c0e8acd0113@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 19 19:01:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M6Sgh-000426-As for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 19:01:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753496AbZESRBA convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 13:01:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753372AbZESRBA (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 13:01:00 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.218.174]:60707 "EHLO mail-bw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753348AbZESRBA convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 13:01:00 -0400 Received: by bwz22 with SMTP id 22so3955102bwz.37 for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 10:01:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.59.18 with SMTP id j18mr213130bkh.206.1242752460684; Tue, 19 May 2009 10:01:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <76718490905190821p1776905bn53610c0e8acd0113@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Jay Soffian wr= ote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Jeff Brown = 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. =A0I ex= pect >> that is the long/wrong way to initialize a repo, especially if I wan= t >> it to be bare. =A0What 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.) > git init --bare That is the bit I needed. Thanks again! jb --=20 Jeff Brown SpringSource http://www.springsource.com/ Autism Strikes 1 in 166 =46ind The Cause ~ Find The Cure http://www.autismspeaks.org/