Create empty repository page and link to that in repositories list about gitblit HOT 12 CLOSED

Gitblit is a Git server and repository viewer.  Newly created repositories are empty.
 They have no commits.  Because they have no commits (i.e. no content) it does not
make much sense to attempt to view nothing.

You must first push content into your newly created repository.  To do that you'll
need a Git client like:

1. standard command-line Git
2. Eclipse/EGit
3. SmartGit
4. One of the many Mac clients
etc.

I think once you have some commits in your repository then things will be more clear.

If you are new to Git you may want to review one of the many Git primers available.

A quick Google search picked-up this one:
http://danielmiessler.com/study/git

You can use Gitblit locally as a repo viewer or it can be used as a remote repository
server as sort-of described here:
http://danielmiessler.com/study/git/#remote_repositories

...I do know git, but I'm just not able to push anything...

$> git push origin master
fatal: http://localhost:8888/test.git/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info
on the server?

Ok.  I can clear that up.  This is a related issue reported in the Google group and
I'm going to hijack your issue for this purpose.

(The clone urls are only displayed on the summary page, but the summary page is unaccessible
for an empty repository.)

Perhaps in the future I will look into serving the git repositories on the root url,
but for now they are served on /git so the answer to push problem is:

e.g. http://localhost:8888/git/test.git

I'll create a new empty repository page and display clone urls and some sort of information
on how to proceed with populating your repository.  It won't be a Git tutorial, but
at least it will explain what is going on.

perfect - that now works. 
thanks for the help! I think exactly such a page would help :)

I have implemented an empty repository page and deployed the current snapshot to my
demo instance on RedHat's OpenShift cloud:

http://demo-gitblit.rhcloud.com

Click on the empty.git repository.

Would that page have helped you?

sorry, I can't access the demo...

Grrr...  I have to make time to understand what about OpenShift is disrupting Gitblit.
I've attached a screenshot of the empty page.

What is the url of your gitblit instance?

that page is perfect!
would be great to hav it in the next release.

v0.8.0 should be out sometime next week.

v0.8.0 released.