Re: cloning empty repo

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jun 24, 2007, 23:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20070624230157.GM17393@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <467E8808.7030903@gentoo.org>

"Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@gentoo.org> wrote:

> is there any reason why cloning an empty repository should result in an error
> instead of a succesfully cloned empty repo?

There's nothing to clone.  The repository is empty.

If you create a Git repository using `git init` and then create another one also using `git init` then both repositories are empty, and an empty repository is identical to every other empty repository.

So if you want to setup an empty repository and then clone nothing, you actually can just setup another empty repository and configure the 'origin' remote:

	mkdir a; cd a; git init; cd ..

	mkdir b; cd b; git init
	# now a and b are identical

	git remote add origin ../a/.git
	# now b is a "clone" of a's nothingness...

-- 
Shawn.