user@user-ws:~/temp/git$ mkdir bare
user@user-ws:~/temp/git$ cd bare
user@user-ws:~/temp/git/bare$ git init --bare
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/temp/git/bare/
user@user-ws:~/temp/git/bare$ cd ..
user@user-ws:~/temp/git$ mkdir non-bare
user@user-ws:~/temp/git$ cd non-bare
user@user-ws:~/temp/git/non-bare$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/temp/git/non-bare/.git/
user@user-ws:~/temp/git/non-bare$ echo abc > file.txt
user@user-ws:~/temp/git/non-bare$ git add file.txt
user@user-ws:~/temp/git/non-bare$ git commit -m Initial
[master (root-commit) 58ebd4d] Initial
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 file.txt
user@user-ws:~/temp/git/non-bare$ git remote add origin ../bare
user@user-ws:~/temp/git/non-bare$ git push -f --mirror
Counting objects: 3, done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 225 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To ../bare
 * [new branch]      master -> master
user@user-ws:~/temp/git/non-bare$ cd ..
user@user-ws:~/temp/git$ find
.
./bare
./bare/objects
./bare/objects/8b
./bare/objects/8b/aef1b4abc478178b004d62031cf7fe6db6f903
./bare/objects/58
./bare/objects/58/ebd4d08b756999374204e48bb836d48d2f75a4
./bare/objects/pack
./bare/objects/a7
./bare/objects/a7/ef7b47eb77f166b193e451d06dbf4a6e93bb5d
./bare/objects/info
./bare/refs
./bare/refs/heads
./bare/refs/heads/master
./bare/refs/tags
./bare/hooks
./bare/hooks/applypatch-msg.sample
./bare/hooks/commit-msg.sample
./bare/hooks/pre-rebase.sample
./bare/hooks/post-update.sample
./bare/hooks/pre-commit.sample
./bare/hooks/pre-applypatch.sample
./bare/hooks/pre-push.sample
./bare/hooks/prepare-commit-msg.sample
./bare/hooks/update.sample
./bare/config
./bare/description
./bare/branches
./bare/info
./bare/info/exclude
./bare/HEAD
./non-bare
./non-bare/file.txt
./non-bare/.git
./non-bare/.git/objects
./non-bare/.git/objects/8b
./non-bare/.git/objects/8b/aef1b4abc478178b004d62031cf7fe6db6f903
./non-bare/.git/objects/58
./non-bare/.git/objects/58/ebd4d08b756999374204e48bb836d48d2f75a4
./non-bare/.git/objects/pack
./non-bare/.git/objects/a7
./non-bare/.git/objects/a7/ef7b47eb77f166b193e451d06dbf4a6e93bb5d
./non-bare/.git/objects/info
./non-bare/.git/refs
./non-bare/.git/refs/heads
./non-bare/.git/refs/heads/master
./non-bare/.git/refs/tags
./non-bare/.git/refs/remotes
./non-bare/.git/refs/remotes/origin
./non-bare/.git/refs/remotes/origin/master
./non-bare/.git/logs
./non-bare/.git/logs/refs
./non-bare/.git/logs/refs/heads
./non-bare/.git/logs/refs/heads/master
./non-bare/.git/logs/refs/remotes
./non-bare/.git/logs/refs/remotes/origin
./non-bare/.git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/master
./non-bare/.git/logs/HEAD
./non-bare/.git/index
./non-bare/.git/hooks
./non-bare/.git/hooks/applypatch-msg.sample
./non-bare/.git/hooks/commit-msg.sample
./non-bare/.git/hooks/pre-rebase.sample
./non-bare/.git/hooks/post-update.sample
./non-bare/.git/hooks/pre-commit.sample
./non-bare/.git/hooks/pre-applypatch.sample
./non-bare/.git/hooks/pre-push.sample
./non-bare/.git/hooks/prepare-commit-msg.sample
./non-bare/.git/hooks/update.sample
./non-bare/.git/config
./non-bare/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG
./non-bare/.git/description
./non-bare/.git/branches
./non-bare/.git/info
./non-bare/.git/info/exclude
./non-bare/.git/HEAD
user@user-ws:~/temp/git$ mkdir clone
user@user-ws:~/temp/git$ cd clone
user@user-ws:~/temp/git/clone$ git clone ../bare
Cloning into 'bare'...
done.
user@user-ws:~/temp/git/clone$ find
.
./bare
./bare/file.txt
./bare/.git
./bare/.git/objects
./bare/.git/objects/8b
./bare/.git/objects/8b/aef1b4abc478178b004d62031cf7fe6db6f903
./bare/.git/objects/58
./bare/.git/objects/58/ebd4d08b756999374204e48bb836d48d2f75a4
./bare/.git/objects/pack
./bare/.git/objects/a7
./bare/.git/objects/a7/ef7b47eb77f166b193e451d06dbf4a6e93bb5d
./bare/.git/objects/info
./bare/.git/refs
./bare/.git/refs/heads
./bare/.git/refs/heads/master
./bare/.git/refs/tags
./bare/.git/refs/remotes
./bare/.git/refs/remotes/origin
./bare/.git/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
./bare/.git/logs
./bare/.git/logs/refs
./bare/.git/logs/refs/heads
./bare/.git/logs/refs/heads/master
./bare/.git/logs/refs/remotes
./bare/.git/logs/refs/remotes/origin
./bare/.git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
./bare/.git/logs/HEAD
./bare/.git/packed-refs
./bare/.git/index
./bare/.git/hooks
./bare/.git/hooks/applypatch-msg.sample
./bare/.git/hooks/commit-msg.sample
./bare/.git/hooks/pre-rebase.sample
./bare/.git/hooks/post-update.sample
./bare/.git/hooks/pre-commit.sample
./bare/.git/hooks/pre-applypatch.sample
./bare/.git/hooks/pre-push.sample
./bare/.git/hooks/prepare-commit-msg.sample
./bare/.git/hooks/update.sample
./bare/.git/config
./bare/.git/description
./bare/.git/branches
./bare/.git/info
./bare/.git/info/exclude
./bare/.git/HEAD
user@user-ws:~/temp/git/clone$ cat bare/file.txt
abc