46. Bare repos

Goals

• To learn to create bare repos.

Bare repos (without working directories) are typically needed for sharing.

01Creating a bare repository.

Run:

cd ..
git clone --bare hello hello.git
ls hello.git

NOTE: We are now in the working directory.

Result:

$ git clone --bare hello hello.git
Cloning into bare repository hello.git...
done.
$ ls hello.git
HEAD
config
description
hooks
info
objects
packed-refs
refs

Typically repositories ending in ‘.git’ are bare. As you can see there is no working directory in the hello.git repository. Actually it is nothing but the .git directory of a non-bare repository.