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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] nmbug: Add an 'init' command\r
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+"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:\r
+\r
+> +sub do_init {\r
+> + my $tempwork = tempdir ('/tmp/nmbug-init.XXXXXX', CLEANUP => 1);\r
+> + system ('git', 'init', '--separate-git-dir', $NMBGIT, $tempwork) == 0\r
+> + or die "'git init' exited with nonzero value\n";\r
+> + git ('config', '--unset', 'core.worktree');\r
+> + git ('config', 'core.bare', 'true');\r
+> + # create an empty blob (e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391)\r
+> + git ('hash-object', '-w', '--stdin');\r
+> + git ( { GIT_WORK_TREE => $tempwork }, 'commit', '--allow-empty',\r
+> + '-m', 'Start a new nmbug repository' );\r
+> +}\r
+> +\r
+\r
+\r
+Shouldn't this empty blob already be created by the following line:\r
+\r
+my $EMPTYBLOB = git (qw{hash-object -t blob /dev/null});\r
+\r
+Or is the key point to write it into the database? Anyway I like my\r
+hack slightly better than yours ;).\r
+\r
+d\r
+\r
+\r
+ \r