Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?

["David Tweed" <david.tweed@gmail.com>]

On Nov 12, 2007 1:19 PM, Bruno Cesar Ribas <ribas@c3sl.ufpr.br> wrote:
> A bare repository is the way to publish your changes to the public.

Just to mention this: an incredibly minor use, but a bare repository
is also useful for "temporary storage" on a non-case-preserving
filesystem (particularly if you don't have the authority/capability to
change the filesystem for one that is case preserving).

[I have a USB stick that I also occasionally use on Windows so
couldn't reformat. My repo doesn't have files whose names differ only
by case, but does have files with capitals somewhere. Not caring
either way about having checked out files, I initially tried to put a
standard repo on the stick and it wouldn't fast-forward when I tried
to push an update to it because some files checked out files had
"vanished". Making it a bare repository avoided the issue problem.]

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