pendashteh/git-empty

A git plugin to create an empty git repository

$ git empty

A git plugin to create an empty git repository

Usage

$ git empty

Initialized empty Git repository in /path/to/here/.git/
[master (root-commit) dd22b2e] Empty.

Now you have a git repository with a valid branch which contains nothing.

Why?

Isn't this what git init does?

No, it's not. git init doesn't create a branch and you still need to make a commit to have a branch.

Ok, got it, what is the usecase?

It is a good practice to start a repository with a blank first commit. There are cases, where having an empty commit as the first commit would come handy. For example, when you need to create a branch that contains no history.

Install

Add git-empty to your $PATH and now you can run git empty as a git subcommand.

This is how you can write a subcommand of your own. Anything in $PATH prefixed with git- will become a git subcommand.

git-empty's Issues

TAIL label for the inital commit

At the moment, to get the initial commit you need to run a command:
https://stackoverflow.com/q/1006775/257479

Would be nice to be able to refer to that as a label, like TAIL.