From: Holger Hellmuth <hellmuth@ira.uka.de>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:54:19 GMT
Subject: Re: How to create empty CENTRAL git with master / development branch ?
Message-ID: <4F7B0F1B.3000304@ira.uka.de>
In-Reply-To: <20120403162352.67cb165e@shiva.selfip.org>

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"

> 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 ssh://big.brother.edu/repo.git

Now everyone will push to the repository master when they do "git push".

Is that what you wanted to know?