From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:30:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711121727130.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <18232.35893.243300.179076@lisa.zopyra.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Bill Lear wrote:

> We have an administrator create a new bare repo for us, and we populate 
> it by pushing into it.  It wold be nice if the administrator could 
> create a bare repo and we could clone from it, and push to it to 
> populate it, instead of cloning the bare repo from another repo that has 
> already been (partly) populated.

I don't see what is soooo hard with using git-remote in the repo you are 
pushing from.  It's just a "git remote add origin <url>", and you can even 
use this to push right afterwards: "git push --all origin".

Besides, if you really want to work together, chances are that you do 
_not_ want to start with <n> independent initial commits.  So you need to 
populate the repository before starting _anyway_.

Why are easy solutions so unattractive?

Ciao,
Dscho