Re: Unable to clone empty repositories remotely

> Greetings,
>
> mkdir test
> cd test
> git init --bare --shared=group
> cd ..
> git clone test test2
>
> works, though clone says it cannot checkout, which is expected.
> This is nevertheless very useful when you create a shared
> repository for a new project; you can then create a personal clone
> and start adding stuff to it.  If, however, you normally work on
> another machine and want to have your personal clone there
> (i.e. git clone ssh://therepomachine/somewhere/test), cloning
> doesn't work at all (tested with git 1.6.0.3.525.ge32c2 in Cygwin):
>
> Initialized empty Git repository in /cygdrive/c/temp/test/.git/
> fatal: no matching remote head
>
> This behaviour isn't documented by either git-init(1) or
> git-clone(1).  I think it would be very convenient if this worked
> for the reasons mentioned above.  I'm sure you could create your
> personal repository with git init and then git remote add the
> shared repository to it but that's much more difficult.
>
> --
> Hannu
>
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