From: Ronny Borchert Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:20:01 GMT Subject: [BUG] --bare is ignored before command word Message-ID: I was trying to clone a bare repository. Not sure why I did, maybe description on website was wrong. My try: git --bare clone https://github..... This was leading in creating a none bare repository! No error or warning message here! I guess this behavior is also for other --xxx commands.