From: Petr Baudis Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:20:05 GMT Subject: Re: cg-commit doesn't like new repository Message-ID: <20051127142005.GG22159@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <200511192243.10815.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> Dear diary, on Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:43:10PM CET, I got a letter where Alan Chandler said that... > I just decided to make a repository of /etc, but because I didn't want to load > in all the files, I used git-init-db to create the repository rather than > cg-init-db cg-init -I ? Its help message would also explain to you how to make the initial commit manually. ;-) > I presume there is something that cg-init-db does which makes it suitable for > cogito - but what cg-commit will try to determine the list of files to commit by diffing against the previous commit, but there is no previous commit. You need to pass cg-commit the -C option in order to make the initial commit. > and shouldn't cg-commit notice and either do it automatically or give > a different error message? Good point. cg-commit will now print out friendly error message and suggest you to use -C. Thanks, -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.