"Christian MICHON" <christian.michon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Hannu Koivisto <azure@xxxxxx> wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> mkdir test >> cd test >> git init --bare --shared=group >> cd .. >> git clone test test2 >> >> works, though clone says it cannot checkout, which is expected. >> This is nevertheless very useful when you create a shared >> repository for a new project; you can then create a personal clone >> and start adding stuff to it. If, however, you normally work on >> another machine and want to have your personal clone there >> (i.e. git clone ssh://therepomachine/somewhere/test), cloning >> doesn't work at all (tested with git 1.6.0.3.525.ge32c2 in Cygwin): >> >> Initialized empty Git repository in /cygdrive/c/temp/test/.git/ >> fatal: no matching remote head >> >> This behaviour isn't documented by either git-init(1) or >> git-clone(1). I think it would be very convenient if this worked >> for the reasons mentioned above. I'm sure you could create your >> personal repository with git init and then git remote add the >> shared repository to it but that's much more difficult. >> >> -- >> Hannu >> >> -- >> 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 >> > > how about creating at least 1 empty commit before any cloning ? > > wouldn't this solve the problem ? No, it wouldn't. I don't doubt that there are workarounds - I mentioned one possibility myself. Admittedly your workaround may be more convenient than mine, but it's still a workaround. Now that I think of it, I wonder if one could go one step further in shared repository creation usability and make it possible to do that git init step remotely as well (I mean, directly with a one-step git command instead of ssh host "cd /repos ; mkdir foo ; cd foo; git init ..."). Since git init doesn't take non-option arguments, I suppose it could be extended to accept ssh (and file) urls for this purpose? And maybe an option to create a corresponding local clone at the same time. -- Hannu -- 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
