What is the idea for bare repositories?

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Nov 12, 2007, 13:11 UTC
Message-ID: <86k5on8v6p.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

Hi,

I have a repository declared as bare. Some commands treat it as such, other's don't. For example, I get

git-diff [no complaint] git-status fatal: /usr/local/bin/git-status cannot be used without a working tree. git-reset [no complaint] git-reset --hard HEAD is now at db862c1... installmanager.sh: setze GIT_WORK_TREE git-commit fatal: /usr/local/bin/git-commit cannot be used without a working tree. git-add fatal: This operation must be run in a work tree

So this is all somewhat inconsistent. What is the situation supposed to be?

-- 
David Kastrup

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