IngwiePhoenix on Nostr: Yep, it's --bare You can also zip the whole thing into a "git bundle". Or was it ...

Yep, it's --bare
You can also zip the whole thing into a "git bundle". Or was it tar...? Either way, you can "clone from an archive".
There are some ultra nieche things in Git for basically no particular reason other than someone found them practical at some point. xD