How to remove working tree from a Git repository

Question

I\'d like to convert my Git repository to a bare one. I distinctly remember something like git remove-tree that did the job previously but I can\'t find it on 1.7. Could you

Answer 1

git clone --bare old_directory new_directory

Answer 2

Cloning your git repository, as suggested in Skydreamer's answer, may be fine for what you want, but it would lose remote-tracking branches, settings in .git/config, etc. An alternative is to just reuse the .git directory as a bare repository, e.g. by doing:

cd my-repo
mv .git ../my-repo.git
cd ../my-repo.git
git config core.bare true

... which will leave my-repo with just your working tree, and my-repo.git as a bare version of the same repository.