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.

From man page
       --bare Make a bare GIT repository. That is, instead of creating
              <directory> and placing the administrative files in
              <directory>/.git, make the <directory> itself the $GIT_DIR. This
              obviously implies the -n because there is nowhere to check out
              the working tree. Also the branch heads at the remote are copied
              directly to corresponding local branch heads, without mapping
              them to refs/remotes/origin/. When this option is used, neither
              remote-tracking branches nor the related configuration variables
              are created.

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:11:58PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
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> 
> 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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