Hi, On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Dan Zwell wrote: > $ export GIT_DIR="`pwd`/.git_public" > $ git init > warning: templates not found /usr/share//git-core/templates/ > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/temp/.git_public/ I think that you implicitly created a bare repository with that. Just check if "git config core.bare" returns true. If so, you need to change that in order to have a working tree. Hth, Dscho - 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