From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:02:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts
Message-ID: <ejt1hi$niu$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <200611201944.kAKJiCAw014973@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>

Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> 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.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git