From: Samuel Williams <space.ship.traveller@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 23:29:20 GMT
Subject: Trying to push into empty repo, get fatal: bad revision 'HEAD'
Message-ID: <CAHkN8V8cpZUmCi6=MUcsCOCBe6H_G6btr6WaV2vVrO1Nm_r4tg@mail.gmail.com>

I have set up a remote repository like so:

remote $ cat .git/config
[core]
repositoryformatversion = 0
filemode = true
bare = false
logallrefupdates = true
sharedrepository = 1
worktree = /srv/http/www.site.com
[receive]
denyNonFastforwards = true
denyCurrentBranch = updateInstead

This repo is empty by default.

When I try to push into it, I get the following:

local $ git push --set-upstream production master
Counting objects: 29, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (27/27), done.
Writing objects: 100% (29/29), 1.13 MiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 29 (delta 3), reused 17 (delta 0)
fatal: bad revision 'HEAD'
To ssh://remote.net/srv/http/www.site.com
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (Working directory has staged changes)
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://remote.net/srv/http/www.site.com'

Is this expected? Am I doing something wrong? Or, is this a bug in Git?

I would expect if you push to an empty repo, it would update it
(because denyCurrentBranch = updateInstead).

Thanks