Lovely idea!
The reason I was looking for this is I was getting:
[ajn26@ajn26-fedora-01 cbl]$ git initHopefully the "-o workaround=rename" part will fix that error.
error: could not commit config file /home/ajn26/mnt/www5/centers/csj/cbl/.git/config
error: could not commit config file /home/ajn26/mnt/www5/centers/csj/cbl/.git/config
error: could not commit config file /home/ajn26/mnt/www5/centers/csj/cbl/.git/config
error: could not commit config file /home/ajn26/mnt/www5/centers/csj/cbl/.git/config
Reinitialized existing Git repository in /home/ajn26/mnt/www5/centers/csj/cbl/.git/