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When adding a remote (or closing) from another local git repository, is there a functional difference between pointing at the ‘.git’ directory inside the working copy and pointing at the just working copy?
I.E. Is there any difference in how fetching/pushing/pulling from within ‘a-repo’ will work, ‘a-repo’ is cloned with:
git clone ~/Projects/some-old-repo/.git ~/Desktop/a-repo
vs.
git clone ~/Projects/some-old-repo ~/Desktop/a-repo
I would say that there is no difference. Typically when you clone a bare repository, the working copy is empty, and nethertheless, the result of the cloning is the same whatever you point on the .git folder or the directory containing the .git folder…