On Okt 23 2016, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > what is the reason clone --bare prohibits --origin? > > % git clone --bare -o fubar anything anywhere > fatal: --bare and --origin fubar options are incompatible. Since a bare clone maps remote branches directly to local branches, without any remote-tracking branches, --origin doesn't make sense. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."