From: Lasse Kliemann <lasse-gmane-git-2009@mail.plastictree.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:54:50 GMT
Subject: gitosis: how to create absolutely empty repos
Message-ID: <go47ma$5n8$1@ger.gmane.org>

$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/foo/new-repos/test/.git/
$ git remote add origin ext:test.git

('ext' is configured in ~/.ssh/config to be my git user and host.)

Here the docs say to add some files and to do a commit. However, 
I want an absolutely empty repos created, so I skip this step.

$ git push origin master:refs/heads/master
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/git/repositories/test.git/
error: src refspec master does not match any.
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
error: failed to push some refs to 'ext:test.git'

So, this did not work. It will work, however, if I do at least 
one commit. A way to do this without adding files is the 
following:

$ git commit --allow-empty

Then the push will work:

$ git push origin master:refs/heads/master
Counting objects: 2, done.
Writing objects: 100% (2/2), 168 bytes, done.
Total 2 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To ext:test.git
 * [new branch]      master -> master

Is there a better way to do it?