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Thank you for answering questions. I was poking around Sapling and got thrown off track pretty quickly. Just wanted to init an empty repo but on an Intel MBP I just get an error:

`abort: please use 'sl init --git .' for a better experience`

What's going on here? I couldn't find info in the `sl init --help --verbose` output or in the Sapling website.

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Because we haven't released the server yet, the open source client currently only really supports git right now, so sl init --git is the only way to init a local repo for now. Perhaps we could make that message clearer.

I'll take a look at the help later to see what we're missing here.

Cool, thanks for the reply. It definitely threw me off and if it only supports git as a backend for the open source user it might make sense if it can default that way for now.

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