Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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Han-Wen Nienhuys [off-list ref] writes:

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[hanwen@haring y]$ git pull ../x
fatal: Needed a single revision
Pulling into a black hole?

Having said all that, I happen to think that this particular
case of pulling into void could deserve to be special cased to
pretend it is a fast forward (after all, nothingness is an
ancestor of anything), if only to make new people's first
experience more pleasant.

If you make pushing into an empty repository work also, you fix the case of
"create an empty repo for somebody, let them fill it up remotely later".

[...]

So please consider that this is classified as a bug.

Thanks!
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"Horst H. von Brand" [off-list ref] wrote:

If you make pushing into an empty repository work also, you fix the case of
"create an empty repo for somebody, let them fill it up remotely later".

This seems to work just fine now.  I do it all of the time.

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Horst H. von Brand wrote:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Han-Wen Nienhuys [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

[hanwen@haring y]$ git pull ../x
fatal: Needed a single revision
Pulling into a black hole?

Having said all that, I happen to think that this particular
case of pulling into void could deserve to be special cased to
pretend it is a fast forward (after all, nothingness is an
ancestor of anything), if only to make new people's first
experience more pleasant.

If you make pushing into an empty repository work also, you fix the case of
"create an empty repo for somebody, let them fill it up remotely later".

That was only the _pull_ which didn't work in empty repo.
Fetch and push worked (and work) just fine with empty repo.

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