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From: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Correct way of making existing remote repository "bare"
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:59:01 +0000 (UTC)
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin <at> gmx.de> writes:

> That's the easiest.  However, I regularly avoid those steps by doing
> 
> 	mv bla/.git bla.git
> 	git --git-dir=bla.git config core.bare true
> 	rm -rf bla
> 

Is it simpler and more complete to do this?

	git config core.bare true
	git config core.logAllRefUpdates
	mv bla/.git bla.git
	rm -rf bla