Cannot get GIT to work

[Cleary]

Could someone please post what "repo init" is supposed to look like?
I have never used GIT before, I have a clean ubuntu7.10 running on
vmware. I have been messing with this for 3 days now and have run out
of ideas. Bottom line, I have no idea what this is supposed to do,
but it sure doesnt seem like it is doing anything.

***@dave-desktop:~/mydroid$ ls -a
. .. .git .repo
***@dave-desktop:~/mydroid$ repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git
Getting repo ...
from git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/repo.git
Calling Clone git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/repo.git
just mkdir /home/dave/mydroid/.repo/repo
proc=subprocess.popen ['git', 'init']
warning: templates not found /usr/local/share/git-core/templates/
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
warning: no common commits
remote: Counting objects: 89, done.
remote: Compressing objecUnpacking 89 objects...
remote: Compressing objects: 1remote: 00% (78/78), done.
remote: Total 89 (delta 28), reused 51 (delta 7)
100% (89/89) done
From git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/repo
* [new branch] master -> origin/master
* [new branch] stable -> origin/stable
remote: Counting objects: 7, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done.
remote: Total 7 (delta 0), reused 1 (delta 0)
Unpacking 7 objects...
100% (7/7) done
From git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/repo
* [new tag] v1.0 -> v1.0
* [new tag] v1.0.1 -> v1.0.1
* [new tag] v1.0.2 -> v1.0.2
* [new tag] v1.0.3 -> v1.0.3
* [new tag] v1.0.4 -> v1.0.4
* [new tag] v1.0.5 -> v1.0.5
* [new tag] v1.0.6 -> v1.0.6
***@dave-desktop:~/mydroid$ ls -a
. .. .git
***@dave-desktop:~/mydroid$ ls .git


Why is the GIT INIT not doing anything?