Re: How-to setup an empty remote repository?

[Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>]

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

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).

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>

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