Why can’t you merge in a bare git repo?
问题 Why can’t I merge into a bare repo? Bare repos don’t have a HEAD or a working tree. In the config file we can see bare=true . You also can’t pull in a bare repo (because pull = fetch & merge and merge doesn't work). However, you can push to a bare repo – why? As far as I know, push also contains a merge, but in this case we can do it well. So, the question could be “how does git merge work?”. Why does it need a HEAD ? What is it doing when merging? 回答1: As Chronial points out, pushing does