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A bare git repository is so named because it has no working directory; it only contains files that are normally hidden away in the .git subdirectory. In other words, it maintains the history of a project, and never holds a snapshot of any given version.

From Git Magic, Chapter 3:

A bare repository is so named because it has no working directory; it only contains files that are normally hidden away in the .git subdirectory. In other words, it maintains the history of a project, and never holds a snapshot of any given version.

A bare repository plays a role similar to that of the main server in a centralized version control system: the home of your project. Developers clone your project from it, and push the latest official changes to it. Typically it resides on a server that does little else but disseminate data. Development occurs in the clones, so the home repository can do without a working directory.

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How to create reflogs information in an existing bare repository

As you might have known that by default, git doesn't enable reflog updates for new bare repositories. The problem is, I have a long history repository but it was created before I set the flag "logAllRefUpdates" on, and now I want that information…
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Getting 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' error when pushing to bare Git repo

Have a remote git bare repo that onto which I've pushed a branch from one machine, and pulled to another machine. Made some changes on the other machine, trying to push those changes back to the remote bare repo, and I get the…
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npm install from bare git file repo

how can I install an npm module from a bare git repo folder? So I have a folder that contains a git repo. It was created with git init --bare. Now I want npm to fetch the latest version of the master branch, and there a package.json file is…
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When pushing branches and tags, get error: cannot spawn git: no such file or directory

I have an existing, bare, Git repository created from importing our source and history from CVS. I make a mirror, using: git clone --mirror git://aserver.adomain.com/myrepo Then, I want to push all branches and tags to our internal Git repo host,…
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What are the purpose of the bare git repositories in .repo/projects/ created by the Android repo script?

The Android source is managed by repo. When syncing using repo, a directory called .repo/projects/ is created, which contains all the git repositories also checked out directly in the current working directory, just in bare git format. For what…
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Adding things to a git bare repository

I know that if I have files in a bare repository, I can access them using git show HEAD:path/to/file. But can I add new content to a bare repository without cloning and modifying a working tree?
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Why can’t you merge in a bare git repo?

Why can’t I merge into a bare repo? Bare repos don’t have a HEAD or a working tree. In the config file we can see bare=true. You also can’t pull in a bare repo (because pull = fetch & merge and merge doesn't work). However, you can push to a bare…
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Is there a git activity log?

Something went really wrong here. Allow me to give the background. Today I try to push to our company default bare msysgit windows server and get a dreaded error message duplicated everywhere in SO about pushing to non-bare. I thought the message…
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Bare repository permissions.

I setup git on an ubuntu server and I was pushing the local repo to the server and getting the errors below. When I change the permissions of the two folders it works. I just want to understand why when I setup git init --bare it doesn't just work…
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Git: How to check which files exist (and their content) in a shared (bare) repository?

I created a shared repo by: git init --bare my_project.git At some point, another user updated this repo with his changes (using git push). How could I check which files are exist now in the shared repo and what is their content ? In a local repo,…
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git add remote tracking branch to bare repo

I have a bare repo that was cloned from git.drupal.org. I have cloned from this bare repo to various different websites. From each of these, I push a site-specific branch onto the bare repo. E.g. if I have foo.org and bar.org, then my bare repo…
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How to use vim-fugitive with a git bare repository?

Environment Setup I use a git bare repository to version my config files. I can use same commands as if I were using a normal git repository just have to include some flags: git --git-dir=/home/kunzaatko/.cfg/ --work-tree=/home/kunzaatko/…
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Why can't I push to a checked out branch of a non-bare repository?

I am confused regarding a scenario that I created. I created a repository on Github (Lets call it A) and pushed code to it. After that I cloned that repository to my local (Lets call it B) such that origin of my local was remote repo A. Now I cloned…
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Ansible: how to init git bare repository and clone it to the same machine?

I would like to ask you how it is possible to implement such a case using Ansible. My main goal is to nit git bare repository and clone it to the same machine (/var/www). My usual steps were: 1) git init —bare (running in /git/project-name) 2) git…
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Track a branch in a bare git-svn

When I run this command: git --git-dir=firebird.git branch -a This is my output: B1_5_Release B2_0_Release B2_1_Release B2_5_Release * master remotes/B1_5_Release remotes/B2_0_Release remotes/B2_1_Release remotes/B2_5_Release …
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