Re: committing to a checked out branch

> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Jeff Brown <jeff@jeffandbetsy.net> wrote:
>> When I create a new repo on my server I have been creating an empty
>> directory, then git init, then git add some file and commit.  I expect
>> that is the long/wrong way to initialize a repo, especially if I want
>> it to be bare.  What is the best approach to creating a cloneable bare
>> repo?
>
> server$ mkdir /path/to/newrepo.git
> server$ cd /path/to/newrepo.git && git init --bare
> laptop$ git clone ssh://server/path/to/newrepo.git
> laptop$ cd newrepo
> laptop$ # add; commit; add; commit; ...
> laptop$ git push origin master
>
> (This may only work with recent versions of git as I believe earlier
> versions used to complain about cloning an empty repository.)
>