-#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#!/usr/bin/perl
# This tool is copyright (c) 2005, Matthias Urlichs.
# It is released under the Gnu Public License, version 2.
unless(-d $git_dir) {
system("git init");
die "Cannot init the GIT db at $git_tree: $?\n" if $?;
- system("git read-tree");
+ system("git read-tree --empty");
die "Cannot init an empty tree: $?\n" if $?;
$last_branch = $opt_o;