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Re: committing to a checked out branch

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Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date
May 19, 2009, 15:21 UTC
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On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Jeff Brown <jeff@jeffandbetsy.net> wrote:
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> When I create a new repo on my server I have been creating an empty
> directory, then git init, then git add some file and commit.  I expect
> that is the long/wrong way to initialize a repo, especially if I want
> it to be bare.  What is the best approach to creating a cloneable bare
> repo?

server$ mkdir /path/to/newrepo.git server$ cd /path/to/newrepo.git && git init --bare laptop$ git clone ssh://server/path/to/newrepo.git laptop$ cd newrepo laptop$ # add; commit; add; commit; ... laptop$ git push origin master

(This may only work with recent versions of git as I believe earlier versions used to complain about cloning an empty repository.)

j.
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