From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 12:33:22 GMT
Subject: Re: $GIT_DIR usage
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708051332230.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46B59F63.8020707@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Dan Zwell wrote:

> $ export GIT_DIR="`pwd`/.git_public"
> $ git init
> warning: templates not found /usr/share//git-core/templates/
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/temp/.git_public/

I think that you implicitly created a bare repository with that.  Just 
check if "git config core.bare" returns true.

If so, you need to change that in order to have a working tree.

Hth,
Dscho