From: J. Bakshi Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:11:22 GMT Subject: Re: How to create empty CENTRAL git with master / development branch ? Message-ID: <201204040711.q347BTXg025316@VM-MailSafe-02.soltecsis.com> In-Reply-To: <4F7B0F1B.3000304@ira.uka.de> On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:54:19 +0200 Holger Hellmuth wrote: > On 03.04.2012 12:53, J. Bakshi wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > I need to create git repos on a remote server by the command executed on that server > > through ssh as > > > > ` ` ` ` ` > > git --bare init project_name.git > > you probably meant "git init --bare project_name.git" Yes right. Sorry for the mistake. > > > How can I also add the master branch, so that users don't need to > > execute [ git push origin master ] ? > > What else do you want them to execute? "git init --bare" creates an > empty repository. Without pushing to it it will always stay empty > > Generally: If you want a central repository, the first one to push to it > might do something like this: > > git remote add origin ssh://big.brother.edu/repo.git > git push origin master > git config branch.master.remote origin > git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master > > Everyone else could do > > git clone > > Now everyone will push to the repository master when they do "git push". > > Is that what you wanted to know? well.... I like to create the master just after creating the bare repo. So that the users can just start working on it without "git push origin master" As I can already ssh into the central git server, I don't need any further ssh://big.brother.edu/repo.git So what should I do after creating a bare empty repo to generate the master there ? # git init --bare project_name.git # cd project_name.git .... and can I execute here any command to add master ? Thanks