This should hopefully clear things up for us:
What is the difference between a repository created using the git init
command and the git init –bare command?Repositories created with the git init command are called working
directories. In the top level folder of the repository you will find
two things:A .git subfolder with all the git related revision history of your repo A working tree, or checked out copies of your project files.Repositories created with git init –bare are called bare repos. They
are structured a bit differently from working directories. First off,
they contain no working or checked out copy of your source files. And
second, bare repos store git revision history of your repo in the root
folder of your repository instead of in a .git subfolder. Note… bare
repositories are customarily given a .git extension.
Taken from John Saints – What is a bare git repository?
A bare git clone does not contain a working directory of checked out code, in other words.
Think of it as just the .git directory (the Git database) without anything else.