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pushing to a non-bare git repo

Init a directory as a bare repo in the first place:

git init . # non-bare
git init -bare . # bare

To be able to push into a non-bare repo, just check out a branch users don't push to:

git checkout -b DUMMY_BRANCH_DONT_USE

Or turn it into a bare repo:

rm *
mv .git/* .
rm .git
sed -i 's/bare = false/bare = true/' config

Source: gitolite