no `bare = true' in `config' of a bare repository - problem or ignore?

[Brian Foster <brian.foster@innova-card.com>]

 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).  All, with or without `bare', seem to be quite
 happy, but I was wondering what's going on;  is this
 a problem;  and if not, is there any point to adding
 the setting anyways?

 As to _why_ some do and some don't, I haven't a clew,
 but suspect the ones that do NOT were originally made
 with an (unknown) older version of git;  and the ones
 that do were made with git 1.5.3 or later.

 The git-config(1) man page (1.5.5) doesn't directly
 mention this, only talking about auto-guessing the
 value on init and clone.  Apologies if TFM explains;
 I didn't spot anything.

cheers!
	-blf-

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