Git clone: remove warning "you appear to have cloned an empty repository"

Question

I want to remove the warning when I clone an empty repository with git clone.

Unlike this question, I want a solution that works for all languages. My computer is in French, and the message is warning: Vous semblez avoir cloné un dépôt vide. and some of my co-workers have their computer in english.

Is there a more elegant solution to my problem?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, there is no configuration variable or command line option to turn off this warning (see the code in clone.c).

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The options I see are :

• disable all of stderr,
• spot the translation of that message and grep it out,
• write an alias for git init && git remote add origin <url>