2009/1/22 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx>: > This is a rant, those offended by rants should stop reading now. > > When I want to check out a remote repository, I do: > > git clone URL... > > Except when the repository is empty, when for no explicable reason > this familiar command doesn't work. > > $ git clone git+ssh://rwmj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/gitroot/ocaml-autoconf/ocaml-autoconf.git > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/rjones/d/ocaml-autoconf/.git/ > fatal: no matching remote head > > $ git init ocaml-autoconf > usage: git init [-q | --quiet] [--bare] [--template=<template-directory>] [--shared[=<permissions>]] > $ mkdir ocaml-autoconf > $ cd ocaml-autoconf > $ git init > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/rjones/d/ocaml-autoconf/.git/ > $ ls > $ ls -a > . .. .git > > Following advice on a website ... > > $ git-remote origin git+ssh://rwmj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/gitroot/ocaml-autoconf/ocaml-autoconf.git > error: Unknown subcommand: origin > usage: git remote > or: git remote add <name> <url> > or: git remote rm <name> > or: git remote show <name> > or: git remote prune <name> > or: git remote update [group] > > -v, --verbose be verbose > > $ git remote add origin git+ssh://rwmj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/gitroot/ocaml-autoconf/ocaml-autoconf.git > > $ git status > # On branch master > # > # Initial commit > # > nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track) > $ git branch > $ git checkout > fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born > $ git status > # On branch master > # > # Initial commit > # > nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track) > $ echo test > README > $ git commit -a > # On branch master > # > # Initial commit > # > # Untracked files: > # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) > # > # README > nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) > $ git add README > $ git commit -a > Created initial commit 2c9a63a: Create repository. > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 README > > $ git push > No refs in common and none specified; doing nothing. > Perhaps you should specify a branch such as 'master'. > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly > error: failed to push some refs to 'git+ssh://rwmj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/gitroot/ocaml-autoconf/ocaml-autoconf.git' > $ git push master > fatal: 'master': unable to chdir or not a git archive > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly > $ git branch master > fatal: A branch named 'master' already exists. $ man git-push $ git push origin master -- 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
