From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:57:19 GMT
Subject: Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711121355380.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071112131927.GA1701@c3sl.ufpr.br>

Hi,

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Bruno Cesar Ribas wrote:

> A bare repository is the way to publish your changes to the public. 
> git-daemon and http-clones use a bare repository that only contains 
> adminsitrative files.

More to the point, a bare repository is one which does not have a working 
directory attached.

As such, many commands do not make any sense at all, such as "git add" 
(_what_ do you want to add?  There is not even a working directory to work 
with!), or "git commit".

Ciao,
Dscho