Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?

>Hi,
>
>On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
>
>> We have an administrator create a new bare repo for us, and we populate 
>> it by pushing into it.  It wold be nice if the administrator could 
>> create a bare repo and we could clone from it, and push to it to 
>> populate it, instead of cloning the bare repo from another repo that has 
>> already been (partly) populated.
>
>I don't see what is soooo hard with using git-remote in the repo you are 
>pushing from.  It's just a "git remote add origin <url>", and you can even 
>use this to push right afterwards: "git push --all origin".
>
>Besides, if you really want to work together, chances are that you do 
>_not_ want to start with <n> independent initial commits.  So you need to 
>populate the repository before starting _anyway_.
>
>Why are easy solutions so unattractive?