Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?

> His second point is also a real issue.  If you allowed cloning
> an empty repo (either bare or non-bare), then you and Bill can
> both clone from it, come up with an initial commit each.  Bill
> pushes his initial commit first.  Your later attempt to push
> will hopefully fail with "non fast forward", if you know better
> than forcing such a push, but then what?  You need to fetch, and
> merge (or rebase) your change on top of Bill's initial commit,
> and at that point the history you are trying to merge does not
> have any common ancestor with his history.