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+From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>\r
+To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: [PATCH v2] nmbug: Add an 'init' command\r
+Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:31:25 -0700\r
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+\r
+For folks that want to start versioning a new tag-space, instead of\r
+cloning one that someone else has already started.\r
+\r
+The empty-blob hash-object call avoids errors like:\r
+\r
+ $ nmbug commit\r
+ error: invalid object 100644 e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 for\r
+'tags/...'\r
+ fatal: git-write-tree: error building trees\r
+ 'git HASH(0x9ef3eb8) write-tree' exited with nonzero value\r
+\r
+David Bremner suggested [1]:\r
+\r
+ $ git hash-object -w /dev/null\r
+\r
+instead of my Python version of:\r
+\r
+ $ git hash-object -w --stdin <&-\r
+\r
+but I expect that closing stdin is more portable than the /dev/null\r
+path.\r
+\r
+[1]: id:87y4vu6uvf.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca\r
+ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.notmuch.general/18626/focus=18720\r
+---\r
+This is just like v1 [1], but rebased into the new Python nmbug. I'd\r
+initially supported the /dev/null approach [2], but have since gone\r
+back to my original --stdin approach for the empty blob object (as\r
+explained in the commit message). Sorry for waffling ;).\r
+\r
+Cheers,\r
+Trevor\r
+\r
+[1]: id:05ccd672f55444f74da62250e2305fb84fdc6c42.1404678709.git.wking@tremily.us\r
+ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.notmuch.general/18626/focus=18630\r
+[2]: id:20140716001239.GH30232@odin\r
+ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.notmuch.general/18722\r
+ devel/nmbug/nmbug | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++\r
+ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/devel/nmbug/nmbug b/devel/nmbug/nmbug\r
+index 9402ead..23bac5c 100755\r
+--- a/devel/nmbug/nmbug\r
++++ b/devel/nmbug/nmbug\r
+@@ -373,6 +373,29 @@ def fetch(remote=None):\r
+ _git(args=args, wait=True)\r
+ \r
+ \r
++def init(remote=None):\r
++ """\r
++ Create an empty nmbug repository.\r
++\r
++ This wraps 'git init' with a few extra steps to support subsequent\r
++ status and commit commands.\r
++ """\r
++ with _tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix='nmbug-init.') as workdir:\r
++ _spawn(\r
++ args=['git', 'init', '--separate-git-dir', NMBGIT, workdir],\r
++ wait=True)\r
++ _git(args=['config', '--unset', 'core.worktree'], wait=True)\r
++ _git(args=['config', 'core.bare', 'true'], wait=True)\r
++ # create an empty blob (e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391)\r
++ _git(args=['hash-object', '-w', '--stdin'], input='', wait=True)\r
++ _git(\r
++ args=[\r
++ 'commit', '--allow-empty', '-m', 'Start a new nmbug repository'\r
++ ],\r
++ additional_env={'GIT_WORK_TREE': workdir},\r
++ wait=True)\r
++\r
++\r
+ def checkout():\r
+ """\r
+ Update the notmuch database from Git.\r
+@@ -703,6 +726,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':\r
+ 'clone',\r
+ 'commit',\r
+ 'fetch',\r
++ 'init',\r
+ 'log',\r
+ 'merge',\r
+ 'pull',\r
+-- \r
+2.1.0.60.g85f0837\r
+\r