Re: git commit error on initial (the very first) commit

"J. Bruce Fields" [off-list ref] writes:

On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 08:26:54PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:

quoted

May be I do something wrong? What is correct procedure to initially import 
tree? git 1.1.4

{pts/0}% git init-db
defaulting to local storage area
{pts/0}% git add .
{pts/0}% git commit -m 'initial import'

It needs to know which paths to update.

While I agree with you that individual developers should always
say "commit -a" after testing their changes, I do not think that
has much to do with Andrey's problem.

In a freshly created repository, "git add ." would register
everything to the index file, and a "git commit" with or without
"-a" that immediately follows "git add ." would commit what is
in the index.  Use of "-a" would not make a difference here.