From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:23:43 GMT
Subject: Re: gitosis: how to create absolutely empty repos
Message-ID: <200902261023.46700.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <go47ma$5n8$1@ger.gmane.org>

Lasse Kliemann wrote:
> Here the docs say to add some files and to do a commit. However, 
> I want an absolutely empty repos created, so I skip this step.
> 
> $ git push origin master:refs/heads/master
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/git/repositories/test.git/
> error: src refspec master does not match any.
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> error: failed to push some refs to 'ext:test.git'

You can do "anything" to the repository and gitosis will create it.
For example, doing an invalid push will work (you'll need to do this
in a git repository to make git-push happy, but it doesn't matter what
it contains):

  git push gitosis@server.example.com:repo.git :master

Note that _cloning_ such a repository is only possible since 86ac751
(Allow cloning an empty repository, 2009-01-23), which is not in any
released version yet, but will be in 1.6.2.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch