@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ CHANGES
 =====
 Corrected problem with Tree.__div__ not working with zero length files.  
 Removed __len__ override and replaced with size instead. Also made size cache
-properly.
+properly. This is a breaking change.
 
 0.1.1
 =====
 
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) 2008, Michael Trier
+Copyright (c) 2008, Michael Trier and contributors
 All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ In the above example, the directory ``/Users/mtrier/Development/git-python``
 is my working repository and contains the ``.git`` directory. You can also 
 initialize GitPython with a bare repository.
 
-	>>> repo = Repo.init_bare("/var/git/git-python.git")
+	>>> repo = Repo.create("/var/git/git-python.git")
 
 Getting a list of commits
 *************************
 
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.1.1
+0.1.2
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ def execute(self, command):
         ``command``
             The command to execute
         """
+        print command
         proc = subprocess.Popen(command, 
                                 shell=True,
                                 stdout=subprocess.PIPE                                
 
@@ -250,13 +250,17 @@ def commit_diff(self, commit):
         return Commit.diff(self, commit)
 
     @classmethod
-    def init_bare(self, path, **kwargs):
+    def init_bare(self, path, mkdir=True, **kwargs):
         """
         Initialize a bare git repository at the given path
         
         ``path``
             is the full path to the repo (traditionally ends with /<name>.git)
         
+        ``mkdir``
+            if specified will create the repository directory if it doesn't
+            already exists. Creates the directory with a mode=0755.
+        
         ``kwargs``
             is any additional options to the git init command
         
@@ -267,9 +271,19 @@ def init_bare(self, path, **kwargs):
         Returns
             ``GitPython.Repo`` (the newly created repo)
         """
-        git = Git(path)
-        git.init(**kwargs)
+        split = os.path.split(path)
+        if split[-1] == '.git' or os.path.split(split[0])[-1] == '.git':
+            gitpath = path
+        else:
+            gitpath = os.path.join(path, '.git')
+        
+        if mkdir and not os.path.exists(gitpath):
+            os.makedirs(gitpath, 0755)
+        
+        git = Git(gitpath)
+        output = git.init(**kwargs)        
         return Repo(path)
+    create = init_bare
 
     def fork_bare(self, path, **kwargs):
         """
@@ -284,7 +298,7 @@ def fork_bare(self, path, **kwargs):
         Returns
             ``GitPython.Repo`` (the newly forked repo)
         """
-        options = {'bare': True, 'shared': False}
+        options = {'bare': True}
         options.update(kwargs)
         self.git.clone(self.path, path, **options)
         return Repo(path)
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ def test_content_from_string_tree_should_return_commit(self):
     def test_content_from_string_invalid_type_should_raise(self):
         self.tree.content_from_string(None, "040000 bogus 650fa3f0c17f1edb4ae53d8dcca4ac59d86e6c44	test")
 
-    @patch(Blob, '__len__')
+    @patch(Blob, 'size')
     @patch(Git, 'method_missing')
     def test_slash(self, blob, git):
         git.return_value = fixture('ls_tree_a')
@@ -63,6 +63,20 @@ def test_slash(self, blob, git):
         assert_true(git.called)
         assert_equal(git.call_args, (('ls_tree', 'master'), {}))
 
+    @patch(Blob, 'size')
+    @patch(Git, 'method_missing')
+    def test_slash_with_zero_length_file(self, blob, git):
+        git.return_value = fixture('ls_tree_a')
+        blob.return_value = 0
+        
+        tree = self.repo.tree('master')
+        
+        assert_not_none(tree/'README.txt')
+        assert_equal('8b1e02c0fb554eed2ce2ef737a68bb369d7527df', (tree/'README.txt').id)
+        
+        assert_true(git.called)
+        assert_equal(git.call_args, (('ls_tree', 'master'), {}))
+  
     @patch(Git, 'method_missing')
     def test_slash_with_commits(self, git):
         git.return_value = fixture('ls_tree_commit')
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
1		- Copyright (c) 2008, Michael Trier
	1	+ Copyright (c) 2008, Michael Trier and contributors
2	2	All rights reserved.
3	3
4	4	Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without