[PATCH 4/4] nmbug: Add an 'init' command

[W. Trevor King]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 08:54:28PM -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> "W. Trevor King" <wking at tremily.us> writes:
> 
> > +sub do_init {
> > +  my $tempwork = tempdir ('/tmp/nmbug-init.XXXXXX', CLEANUP => 1);
> > +  system ('git', 'init', '--separate-git-dir', $NMBGIT, $tempwork) == 0
> > +    or die "'git init' exited with nonzero value\n";
> > +  git ('config', '--unset', 'core.worktree');
> > +  git ('config', 'core.bare', 'true');
> > +  # create an empty blob (e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391)
> > +  git ('hash-object', '-w', '--stdin');
> > +  git ( { GIT_WORK_TREE => $tempwork }, 'commit', '--allow-empty',
> > +        '-m', 'Start a new nmbug repository' );
> > +}
> > +
> 
> 
> Shouldn't this empty blob already be created by the following line:
> 
> my $EMPTYBLOB = git (qw{hash-object -t blob /dev/null});
> 
> Or is the key point to write it into the database?  Anyway I like my
> hack slightly better than yours ;).

We need to write it to the database.  I'll use /dev/null in v2,
though.

Cheers,
Trevor

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