Make `vcsh clone` work with older git versions

[code/vcsh.git] / vcsh

diff --git a/vcsh b/vcsh
index ec0301f247822a053b85c9a90a962446377ecc0d..990a234ce11828baf2b34e50bd9f5edf94a73f31 100755 (executable)
--- a/vcsh
+++ b/vcsh
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ clone() {
        git remote add origin "$GIT_REMOTE"
        git config branch.master.remote origin
        git config branch.master.merge  refs/heads/master
        git remote add origin "$GIT_REMOTE"
        git config branch.master.remote origin
        git config branch.master.merge  refs/heads/master

+       if [ $(git ls-remote origin master 2> /dev/null | wc -l ) -lt 1 ]; then
+               info "remote is empty, not merging anything"
+               exit
+       fi

        git fetch
        for object in $(git ls-tree -r origin/master | awk '{print $4}'); do
                [ -e "$object" ] &&
        git fetch
        for object in $(git ls-tree -r origin/master | awk '{print $4}'); do
                [ -e "$object" ] &&