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Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 20, 2006, 20:02 UTC
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Horst H. von Brand wrote:
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> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
>>> Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> writes:
>>>
>>>> [hanwen@haring y]$ git pull ../x
>>>> fatal: Needed a single revision
>>>> Pulling into a black hole?
>> 
>> Having said all that, I happen to think that this particular
>> case of pulling into void could deserve to be special cased to
>> pretend it is a fast forward (after all, nothingness is an
>> ancestor of anything), if only to make new people's first
>> experience more pleasant.
> 
> If you make pushing into an empty repository work also, you fix the case of
> "create an empty repo for somebody, let them fill it up remotely later".

That was only the _pull_ which didn't work in empty repo. Fetch and push worked (and work) just fine with empty repo.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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Message 4 of 4 in “Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts”
  1. Junio C HamanoNov 16, 2006
  2. Horst H. von BrandNov 20, 2006
  3. Shawn PearceNov 20, 2006
  4. Jakub NarebskiNov 20, 2006

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