Phillip Susi:
It seems that --bare on clone will prevent the checkout of the local
working tree. If I decide I do want the sources today I can just check
them out, but what is the proper way to do the reverse?
Then I would recommend creating another clone. I usually do a
git clone --reference path/to/bare server:path/to/origin newcheckout
to create clones with working trees, without having to pay the penalty of
having (yet) another copy of the objects under .git (and with .git in the
order of 400 megabytes, and several working copies, it does pay off).
Maintaining this is a lot easier than constantly adding and removing a
working tree from the repository.
If you only need a single file, "git show commit:path" should work, even on
a bare repository.
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