On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have created a bare repository: > > $ mkdir remote.git > > angelo@ANGELO-PC /d/gtest (master) > $ git init --bare > Initialized empty Git repository in d:/gtest/ This creates a bare repository in d:/gtest, not in d:/gtest/remote.git. You'll need to cd into remote.git to create a bare repo. > and then tried to open it with the git gui, but have got the message: > "remote.git is not a git repository". So this message is correct. Be as it may, as soon as you've initialized the repo as required, git gui will (probably) tell you: "Cannot use bare repository: d:/gtest/remote.git" So nothing gained there. So I'm wondering what you expect git gui to give you in a bare repo? It seems to me that this tool is specifically aimed at non-bare repos, allowing for creating commits, merges and whatnot; all things you cannot typically do in a bare repo. Frans -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html