git lab clone fails for new repository

[ctrngk]

git lab clone does not work as expected for some reasons, shortly after git lab create.
Fatal error: fatal: Couldn't find remote ref master
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

However, git clone git@gitlab.com:user/repo.git works as expected. Could git-repo try this command after failing git lab clone user/repo.

[guyzmo]

About the first issue, it's indeed fixed in the devel branch, and planned for the next minor release, I've been a bit busy on another project in parallel sorry :)

About the second, it's not exactly doing a git clone, but a git init and git fetch. The issue is caused as I made a stupid assumption that default branch is master. I've partially solved this issue, but it looks like there are still references to master in the code. I'll have to check that.

[guyzmo]

Thank you for reporting! (N.B. I'm editing your post to keep focused: one issue → one topic).

[guyzmo]

ok, actually the issue is not a matter of master less branch, which I thnk is actually solved. It's a matter of cloning an empty repository. I'll see what I can do. Maybe I should only run a git init, but I'd need to really detect (maybe with the API?) that the repository is empty..

Even though I agree it's nice to support the above, the process I had in mind when designing the tool was:

git lab create foobar
git init foobar
cd foobar
git lab add $USER/foobar

which will assign a remote to gitlab

then you do your work, then you end with:

git push -u gitlab master

to setup the tracking branch.

[ctrngk]

Thank you. This should have been included in beginner tutorials.
Also, from user respective, git lab clone $USER/foobar is equivalent to git clone git@gitlab.com:$USER/foobar, as well as git hub clone. Maybe a parser to translate to official command?

[guyzmo]

No, I'll just look forward to make it possible to clone an empty repository, it's on my todo list :)

Basically, I guess I'll be doing a git init and git remote add upon error with the remote repository existing but being empty.