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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: Make a non-bare repo bare.
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:19:21 -0400
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:48:42PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> On 07/15/2009 11:43 PM, Tim Visher wrote:
> >I recently had occasion to make a previously non-bare repo bare.  Is
> >there any way to do this?  It will not allow me to delete a branch
> >that I'm on so I wasn't sure how to proceed.
> 
> Just do "mv repo/.git repo.git; rm -rf repo" (with care!).

That used to work, but these days there is a "core.bare" config variable
so that git doesn't have to guess whether you are in a bare repo. So you
should also do:

  $ git config core.bare true

in the resulting repo (or just before, since your "mv" is obviously not
a git command that would care).

-Peff