I did: mkdir M cd M git --bare init-db git --bare fetch git+ssh://localhost/SomeRepo This got the (correct) 21 (loose) objects. OK, cleanup: git --bare gc this gives: Generating pack... Done counting 0 objects. Nothing new to pack. and the objects are gone, no pack there. Same thing happens with plain "git gc". Not very nice... Besides, you can "git --bare pull ...", and get a mishmash of repo + checked out files, this should be forbidden. Also, "git status" reports a bunch of repo files as untracked, "git ls-files" shows nothing at all. I.e., handling of bare repos needs a workover. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 - 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