On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Jeff Brown <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html