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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: no `bare = true' in `config' of a bare repository - problem or
 ignore?
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:25:29 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Brian Foster wrote:

>  Whilst investigating a (probably unrelated) mystery,
>  I noticed that some of my bare git repositories had:
> 
> 	[core]
>  	    bare = true
> 
>  whilst others did not (they had no `bare' setting at
>  all).

It's a historical thing: this setting was not present in older Git.  
Basically, we still have some autodetection ignoring the absence of 
core.bare.

Shouldn't be a problem.

Ciao,
Dscho