Reputation: 1448
When a repository is cloned by using simple git clone repo
, the master branch is automatically checked out. If after this automatic checkout, I want to delete all files checked out and turn the clone in to a bare clone, how can I achieve this? Are there configurations within the .git folder that I can modify to accomplish this?
Side note: I know that specifying the If I delete the files that are checked out, those files will be shown as deleted when running --no-checkout
or -n
flag during clone prevents checkout of HEAD
and keeps the repository bare.git status
.
Upvotes: 2
Views: 2513
Reputation: 177895
git clone --no-checkout
doesn't give a bare repository, it just leaves the work tree and index empty. git status
after such a clone will say that all files have been staged for deletion.
A bare repository is one with core.bare = true
(and a bare repository made with git clone --bare
will also not have any remote refs). You can do git config core.bare true
to flip this bit. Then remove the work tree and index, and possibly rename the directory from repo/.git
to repo.git
.
Upvotes: 3