Unable to commit to an empty git repo

Question

I have created an empty Git repository in Atlassian Stash and cloned it.

$ git clone http://me@myrepo/my/repo.git
...
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.

Then I've created some files, added them via git add and wanted to commit via git commit. I get the following error:

ERROR: Unable to determine active branch in current context !
ERROR: GITLib::Branch::get_current died at line 41

When I do git rev-parse HEAD I get:

$ git rev-parse HEAD
HEAD
fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.

When I issue git branch -a to see if there are any remote branches, the output is empty.

Let's create a branch locally:

$ git checkout -b "foo"
Switched to a new branch 'foo'

$ git commit -m "test"
ERROR: Unable to determine active branch in current context !
ERROR: GITLib::Branch::get_current died at line 41

How do I get my repo in a workable state?

I tried issuing git commit --allow-empty, git init but it didn't change anything.

Edit:

When I just create an empty repo locally with git init, then git add and try to git commit similar happens:

ERROR: GIT::Command::git_or_die died at line 164

Edit 2:

It seems an internal issue due to a hook in my company. I'll follow up with details if this gets resolved.

Using Git Bash 1.8.5.2 @ Win7.

Answer 1

Rather than cloning the empty repository from Stash, try creating a new repository locally (in a new directory) with:

git init .

Add your files and make your first commit. The freshly init'd repository should have a proper HEAD and master branch:

git add file1.txt
git add file2.txt
git commit

Then, add your empty Stash repo as a remote and push master there:

git remote add origin http://me@myrepo/my/repo.git
git push -u origin master