git-initremote

#!/bin/zsh

# git-initremote - initialize a remote git repository
#
# Copyright 2013 by David Lindes.  All Rights Reserved.
#
# See accompanying LICENSE file for licensing information.

# for some reason, if we just use 'ssh', git says the command isn't
# found... and yet, it can find it this way:
ssh=`which ssh`

# If we haven't specified any remotes on the command-line, default to 'origin':
if [ -z "$*" ]
then
    set -- origin
fi

# Loop through remotes, attempting to create remote directories as
# empty bare repos, ready to push to:
for remote in "$@"
do
    # first, get the URL from 'git remote':
    # (Note: that's a hard tab in the grep string.)
    read name url extra < <(git remote -v | grep "^$remote	" | grep push)

    # next parse URL into host and path:
    IFS=":" read host path < <(echo "$url")

    # Finally, ssh to $host to create it, unless it already exists (in
    # which case do nothing):
    $ssh "$host" "test ! -d $path && git init --bare $path || echo '$host:$path: Already exists'"
done