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With git clone there is the option -n wich prevents a checkout of HEAD after the repository is cloned. Is there a possibility to do this manually?
Edit I think the option -n reads better in the manual than it actually is: After cloning with -n all my tools show that I still reside on the master branch; the only difference being that all files are shown as deleted. It’s not really the same situation that I would call ‘not checked out’.
So maybe I should just delete HEAD?
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Git Checkout FileIf you stage and commit the checked-out file, this has the effect of “reverting” to the old version of that file. Note that this removes all of the subsequent changes to the file, whereas the git revert command undoes only the changes introduced by the specified commit.
The git checkout command lets you navigate between the branches created by git branch . Checking out a branch updates the files in the working directory to match the version stored in that branch, and it tells Git to record all new commits on that branch.
The simplest solution would be to clone it bare:
git clone --bare your_repo bare_repo
(and delete your checked out repo)
Basically, you need to transform your repo into a bare one, which, according to this question, could be done manually with:
- changing the
.git/configfile to havebare = trueinstead ofbare = false- removing the contents of
your_repo/*other than the.gitfile- moving the
.gitdir contents intoyour_repo/and removing the.gitdir
See also Git: Convert normal to bare repository, as mentioned by MikeSep in the comments.
If you need to uncheckout, keep bare to false, and simply remove everything but the .git. That should be like a git clone -n.
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