From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:41:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?
Message-ID: <7vir46t2cc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpqzlxiiii6.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

> To create an initial commit in a bare repository, the most natural way
> for me is to clone it, create the commit in the clone, and then push.
>
> Bare-ness _does_ matter for that.

You are still wrong.

The most natural is to create a commit in a non-bare repository
you create, and push into a bare empty repository.  The
repository that is pushed into can be non-bare, but bareness of
that does _NOT_ matter.

Where bareness matters is on your end, the local private
repository you create the initial commit in.