On 8/25/07, Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 11:00:33PM CEST, Wink Saville wrote: > > In the instructions I followed for setting up a remote repository, > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/cvs-migration.html, > > it uses an existing repository. So is it true you can't clone an > > empty remote repository, or did I do something wrong? > > It is true that you can't clone it. "Cloning remote repository" means > just "get all the remote branches and set them up locally". In empty > repository there are no branches yet, so there's nothing to clone. > > I guess this should be covered in the FAQ (if it isn't already), it is > one of the top questions repo.or.cz users have and I think I see it > frequently on IRC as well. > > -- I didn't see it here, http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq. I would have expected it to setup an empty repository and then populate it with 0 remote branches. Obviously, its a corner case and maybe doesn't need addressing but if it is asked a lot then maybe it should work that way. Thanks, Wink - 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
