On server:
[git@alarmpi ~]$ git init --bare myrepo.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/git/myrepo.git/

On client:
jatech@Webcruncher /var/www $ git clone 192.168.0.99:myrepo.git
Cloning into 'myrepo'...
Arch Linux \r (\l)

warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
Checking connectivity... done.
jatech@Webcruncher /var/www $ cd myrepo/
jatech@Webcruncher /var/www/myrepo $ ls -la
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  3 jatech jatech   4096 Nov  2 13:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 jatech www-data 4096 Nov  2 13:08 ..
drwxr-xr-x  7 jatech jatech   4096 Nov  2 13:08 .git
jatech@Webcruncher /var/www/myrepo $ touch addfile
jatech@Webcruncher /var/www/myrepo $ git add -A
jatech@Webcruncher /var/www/myrepo $ git commit -a -m "Added an file"
[master (root-commit) 7244388] Added an file
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 addfile
jatech@Webcruncher /var/www/myrepo $ git pull
Arch Linux \r (\l)

Your configuration specifies to merge with the ref 'master'
from the remote, but no such ref was fetched.