I ended up not writing about it, but the reason git weird me out is that normally /all/ I would do is this: cd ~/gits/ git clone --bare git@gitlab.com:screwlisp/arrokoth.git cd ~/working/ got checkout ~/gits/arrokoth
which helpfully prints the words, "Now shut up and hack!", and in got useage you don't really think about anything git tries to be able to do, since you don't generally write in a way that would break others' work. I think, anyway. @mdhughes