Till Maas wrote:
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:38:40AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
I don't control the remote repository. That would be fedorahosted in the case I am asking about.
I am pretty sure that the repositories on fedorahosted are bare so that the changes here do not apply or maybe only apply if you want to remove the master branch remotely: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt
I believe that sums it up. It doesn't affect typical git push behavior. The goal was to alleviate a common issue people run into when trying to push into non-bare repositories. It came up often enough in #git on freenode that it became a FAQ. So now if folks want to push into non-bare repositories, they have to pass the "I've read the documentation and explicitly enabled it" test.