A default branch cannot be chosen for an empty project.

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Summary

A default branch cannot be chosen for an empty project.

But I can not commit and push to the project:

Steps to reproduce

1. Create project repository
2. Create user, upload SSH key and grant access to this project
3. On local host: git init; git add remote origin path:to/this_project
4. create some files and commit them
5. git push origin

What is the current bug behavior?

$ git push office 
Enumerating objects: 46, done.
Counting objects: 100% (46/46), done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (40/40), done.
Writing objects: 100% (46/46), 34.46 KiB | 2.46 MiB/s, done.
Total 46 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
remote: GitLab: 
remote: A default branch (e.g. main) does not yet exist for office/stack
remote: Ask a project Owner or Maintainer to create a default branch:
remote: 
remote:   https://local/gitlab/office/stack/-/project_members
remote: 
To office:office/stack
 ! [remote rejected] dev -> dev (pre-receive hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to 'office:office/stack'

What is the expected correct behavior?

Would be nice to have a button to create bare commit and allow to configure default branch.

Allow to push, when there is no default branch yet.

Results of GitLab environment info

Gitlab 15.5.1

**What is the command to get detailed info?