Initial push to remote repository

Hello, I used to publish my local work on a machine with all my git repositories using the following commands:

# Publish a local created repository to a remote repository.
ssh 131.188.30.102 git --git-dir=/home/cip/adm/sithglan/work/repositories/private/astro.git init-db
git remote add origin 131.188.30.102:/home/cip/adm/sithglan/work/repositories/private/astro.git
git push origin master:master
echo >> .git/config <<EOF
[branch "master"]
        remote = origin
        merge = refs/heads/master
EOF
git pull

But since my last update of git it doesn't seem to work that way anymore. Is there another way to do what I like to using the git way?

        (ad027088pc) [~] mkdir test_initial_push
        (ad027088pc) [~] cd !$
        (ad027088pc) [~/test_initial_push] touch a
        (ad027088pc) [~/test_initial_push] git init
        Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
        (ad027088pc) [~/test_initial_push] git add a
        (ad027088pc) [~/test_initial_push] git commit -m "whatever" a
        Created initial commit 0d408ed: whatever
        0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
        create mode 100644 a
        (reverse-i-search)`':
        (ad027088pc) [~/test_initial_push] ssh 131.188.30.102 git --git-dir=/home/cip/adm/sithglan/work/repositories/private/test_initial_push.git init-db
        Initialized empty Git repository in /home/cip/adm/sithglan/work/repositories/private/test_initial_push.git/
        (ad027088pc) [~/test_initial_push] git remote add origin 131.188.30.102:/home/cip/adm/sithglan/work/repositories/private/test_initial_push.git/
        You have new mail in /home/adglth0/Maildir
        (ad027088pc) [~/test_initial_push] git push origin master:master
        error: dst refspec master does not match any existing ref on the remote and does not start with refs/.
        fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
        error: failed to push to '131.188.30.102:/home/cip/adm/sithglan/work/repositories/private/test_initial_push.git/'
        (ad027088pc) [~/test_initial_push] git version
        git version 1.5.3.1
        (ad027088pc) [~/test_initial_push] ssh 131.188.30.102 git version
        git version 1.5.2.1

                Thomas