git setup/usage question

[Bakul Shah]

You might want to read this as to why bare repos are a problem with worktrees & some solutions.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54367011/git-bare-repositories-worktrees-and-tracking-branches

I wish I had read this earlier. Torek’s solution is quite clever. Basically

git clone $url
cd $new-repo
git checkout $(git commit-tree $(git hash-object -t tree /dev/null) < /dev/null)

This makes the new repo completely empty but you can add multiple worktrees, no more than one per branch, for any local work.