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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:27:58 -0800
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> 
>> (And the real reason for that is simple: "git pull" simply wants to have 
>> something to _start_ with. It's not hugely fundamental, it's just how it 
>> was written).
>
> Here's a very lightly tested patch that allows you to use "git pull" to 
> populate an empty repository.
>
> I'm not at all sure this is necessarily the nicest way to do it, but it's 
> fairly straightforward.
>
> Junio, what do you think?

Yeah, I talked about making "merge" treat missing HEAD as a
special case of fast forward, but I like yours better.  It is a
lot cleaner and to the point.