Re: How-to setup an empty remote repository?

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Aug 25, 2007, 22:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20070825220629.GC1219@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <d4cf37a60708251400t17b0a097t91f77cbb4e996810@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 11:00:33PM CEST, Wink Saville wrote:

> In the instructions I followed for setting up a remote repository,
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/cvs-migration.html,
> it uses an existing repository. So is it true you can't clone an
> empty remote repository, or did I do something wrong?

It is true that you can't clone it. "Cloning remote repository" means just "get all the remote branches and set them up locally". In empty repository there are no branches yet, so there's nothing to clone.

I guess this should be covered in the FAQ (if it isn't already), it is one of the top questions repo.or.cz users have and I think I see it frequently on IRC as well.

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