Re: commit-id fails after cg-init

From: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Date: May 3, 2005, 21:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20050503211458.GY4747@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>
In-Reply-To: <1115150585.28520.11.camel@dv>

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:03:05PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:

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> So, cg-init created an empty .git/refs/heads/master and made .git/HEAD a
> symlink to it.  Now, commit-id reads that file and gets confused.
> 
> If anybody has an idea what to put to .git/refs/heads/master please
> speak up so that cg-init could be fixed.

	Well, cg-init in this case creates no objects.  I'd say,
instead, it should create an empty tree object (representing a project
with no files) and commit that.  That would be your initial commit, and
would put something valid in heads/master.

Joel

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