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

On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 11:00:33PM CEST, Wink Saville wrote:

It is true that you can't clone it. "Cloning remote repository" means just "get all the remote branches and set them up locally". In empty repository there are no branches yet, so there's nothing to clone.

I guess this should be covered in the FAQ (if it isn't already), it is one of the top questions repo.or.cz users have and I think I see it frequently on IRC as well.

On 8/25/07, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:

I didn't see it here, http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq.

I would have expected it to setup an empty repository and then populate it with 0 remote branches. Obviously, its a corner case and maybe doesn't need addressing but if it is asked a lot then maybe it should work that way.

Thanks,

Wink

On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 14:00:33 -0700, Wink Saville wrote:

Did it configure the repository though? Like setting the url and tracking branches for origin? If it did, it actually did all you needed, so you can count it as success (and the message should talk about having nothing to do rather than failing).