git-p4: submit to blank p4 repository help please

Hi

There was some discussion of this under the topic "bug in git-p4?" but I could see no resolution so I am putting the question out again.

Git-p4 does not seem to work (for me at least) when you try to submit a git repository to a blank p4 repository. It seems that you have to have pulled your git repository from p4 originally in order for it to work?

This is the kind of thing I have typically been trying  

git-p4 clone //depot/firmware/fred/bloggs.git

(//depot/firmware/fred/bloggs.git is a folder synced to an empty p4 repository)

cd bloggs

(there is now an empty git repository here)

If I then pull from a git repository into the newly created bloggs.git and do git-p4 submit

I get...

Syncronizing p4 checkout... ... - file(s) up-to-date. Applying 0b666f81da14bf46cada222856762f7fd6641c26 Initial revision

fatal: ambiguous argument '0b666f81da14bf46cada222856762f7fd6641c26^': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions Command failed: git diff-tree -r "0b666f81da14bf46cada222856762f7fd6641c26^" "0b666f81da14bf46cada222856762f7fd6641c26"

I have tried to checkout pre-existing files from P4, change them in git and put them back and that works fine.

I am using the git 1.6.3.1.fc9 rpms with the git-p4 taken from the git-1.6.3.1 source tree.

Thanks for your help

Steve