Cannot git clone a folder on a server and then edit and git push?

Question

I used Mercurial (Hg) before, and it was ok to do something like at the local PC:

hg clone ssh://peter@hostingcompany.com/~/mysite.com

and

Answer 1

In Git it is usually a good practice to have the repo on the server to which other people push to be a bare repository. It is highly recommended.

git init . --bare

Here it is failing because you are pushing to a non-bare ( with a working copy ) repo and to the branch that is checked out.