It seems that the "--bare" option has been removed, I now using 1.5.2.5. This makes the documentation in http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/cvs-migration.html incorrect. I was able to manually create a bare directory using the following: $ git-init --shared $ git-config core.bare true $ mv .git/* . $ rmdir .git $ git-fetch ~/git-repos/my-repo master:master Things seem to be working I can pull and push to the repo after using: $ git-daemon --enable=receive-pack --reuseaddr --base-path=/home/wink/git-repos \ --export-all --verbose But this seems arduous, I suspect I'm missing something. Cheers, Wink Saville - 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