How-to setup an empty remote repository?

Hello,

I thought I'd try to setup a shared "empty" remote repository and then clone it and then push the initial commit from another maching. This failed as shown below:

 $ cd ~/git-repos
 $ mkdir test.git
 $ cd test.git
 $ git --bare init --shared
 Initialized empty shared Git repository in /home/wink/git-repos/test.git/
 $ git-daemon --reuseaddr --verbose --base-path=/home/wink/git-repos \
    --export-all --enable=receive-pack

On my other machine:

$ git clone git://192.168.0.8/test.git Initialized empty Git repository in /home/wink/prgs/test/.git/ fatal: no matching remote head fetch-pack from 'git://192.168.0.8/test.git' failed. $

And the remote machine responded:

[27299] Connection from 192.168.0.133:56710 [27299] Extended attributes (18 bytes) exist <host=192.168.0.8> [27299] Request upload-pack for '/test.git' [27299] Disconnected

In the instructions I followed for setting up a remote repository, http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/cvs-migration.html, it uses an existing repository. So is it true you can't clone an empty remote repository, or did I do something wrong?

I'm using : $ git --version git version 1.5.3.rc6.23.g0058

Note, my reason for using the shared remote repository is to make it simple and easy to backup my repository on a second machine and it seemed reasonable to try a an empty repository.

Cheers,

Wink Saville