Hi Angelo, On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have removed the Italian localization so as to make git gui use the > English one. > The result is the same as I have found before. > The message is: " Not a Git repository: remote.git". > Thus, the misleading message is there. I'm not seeing what you're seeing. I'm running git 1.7.12.1 and I get exactly this message: Cannot use bare repository: /Users/bsmith/tmp/repo.git When I do exactly this: $ cd ~/tmp $ mkdir repo.git $ cd repo.git $ git init --bare $ git gui What, exactly, are you doing? // Ben -- 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