Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2009, #07; Wed, 28)

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

We could always assume the remote side is going to eventually put
content on "master" (we know they aren't using another branch _now_, or
the repo wouldn't be empty, so we are just guessing they will follow the
usual convention). That feels a bit hack-ish, though.

Now, doesn't "The other end is empty" error start looking much saner than
everybody seems to have thought ;-)?