fatal: Not a valid object name: 'master'

Question

I have a private server running git 1.7 When I

git init 

a folder it doesn\'t create a master branch. Cause when i do:

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Answer 1

First off, when you create a "bare repository", you're not going to be doing any work with it (it doesn't contain a working copy, so the git branch command is not useful).

Now, the reason you wouldn't have a master branch even after doing a git init is that there are no commits: when you create your first commit, you will then have a master branch.