How do I create a bare repo clone of existing git working repo

Question

I have been sole developer, working on a project with a local repository under git.

Now I need to create a bare repo for collaboration on a local network.

How do I do that?

Answer 1

git clone -l --bare old_repo_dir new_repo.git

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Note: if the plan is to collaborate over the web, it might be better to simply create a web-hosted repo and push the local one to that.