CLI/git: Add an 'init' command

For folks that want to start versioning a new tag-space, instead of
cloning one that someone else has already started.

The empty-blob hash-object call avoids errors like:

  $ nmbug commit
  error: invalid object 100644 e69de29bb2 for
'tags/...'
  fatal: git-write-tree: error building trees
  'git HASH(0x9ef3eb8) write-tree' exited with nonzero value

David Bremner suggested [1]:

  $ git hash-object -w /dev/null

instead of my Python version of:

  $ git hash-object -w --stdin <&-

but I expect that closing stdin is more portable than the /dev/null
path (which doesn't exist on Windows, for example).

The --bare init and use of NMBGIT as the work tree (what could go
wrong with an empty commit?) are suggestions from Michal Sojka [2].

[1]: id:87y4vu6uvf.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca
     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.notmuch.general/18626/focus=18720
[2]: id:87a93a5or2.fsf@resox.2x.cz
     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.notmuch.general/19495/focus=19767
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W. Trevor King 2015-01-18 16:40:10 -08:00 committed by David Bremner
parent a01378e48d
commit 14ac68ae11

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@ -351,6 +351,25 @@ def fetch(remote=None):
_git(args=args, wait=True)
def init(remote=None):
"""
Create an empty nmbug repository.
This wraps 'git init' with a few extra steps to support subsequent
status and commit commands.
"""
_spawn(args=['git', '--git-dir', NMBGIT, 'init', '--bare'], wait=True)
_git(args=['config', 'core.logallrefupdates', 'true'], wait=True)
# create an empty blob (e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391)
_git(args=['hash-object', '-w', '--stdin'], input='', wait=True)
_git(
args=[
'commit', '--allow-empty', '-m', 'Start a new nmbug repository'
],
additional_env={'GIT_WORK_TREE': NMBGIT},
wait=True)
def checkout():
"""
Update the notmuch database from Git.
@ -711,6 +730,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
'commit',
'fetch',
'help',
'init',
'log',
'merge',
'pull',