I usually initialize my git repos with an empty commit. Several reasons why this is a good idea (detailed in this blog post - http://kevin.deldycke.com/2010/05/

I usually initialize my git repos with an empty commit. Several reasons why this is a good idea (detailed in this blog post - http://kevin.deldycke.com/2010/05/initialize-git-repositories/ http://kevin.deldycke.com/2010/05/initialize-git-repositorie...) I have a git alias for the same - start = !git init && git commit --allow-empty -m \"chore: empty initial commit\" Note: That's not my blog.