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Asked: 2026-06-08T14:20:27+00:00

I think I have misconfigured something, When I do a git init –bare on

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I think I have misconfigured something, When I do a git init --bare on /git/math-site.com in instead initializes the directory on an already existing git directory /git/science-site.com. Why does it initialize the repo on another directory?

Here’s the list of commands I did:

cd /git/math-site.com
git init --bare
Reinitialized existing Git repository in /git/science-site.com/

Edit: I tried deleting /git/science-site.com and /git/math-site.com and now a new errors arises.

mkdir /git/math-site.com && cd /git/math-site.com
git init --bare
fatal: GIT_WORK_TREE (or --work-tree=<directory>) not allowed without specifying GIT_DIR (or --git-dir=<directory>)
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  1. Editorial Team

    unset GIT_DIR and also GIT_WORK_TREE and try. Normally, you should not be manually setting that environment variable.

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