git init will not create git directories for me

Question

I am new to Git. I can get a Git directory structure in a bare directory with git -init --bare. I can see where the git information is stored.

However, w

Answer 1

Do

git rev-parse --git-dir

to see where git's finding the repository structure.

@VonC's got the goods on where the objects are, I'll just add that everything else is repo-local metadata.