There is a technical difference between an local repo and a remote repo (bare repository) - although I think you can clone from a repo and make this "authoritat

There is a technical difference between an local repo and a remote repo (bare repository) - although I think you can clone from a repo and make this "authoritative", what you usually do is (in your client, not the server) - add a new remote - push your tree to this new remote - remove the old remote (optional) And that's it. You're further not supposed to make commits on a remote directly. Usually this fails hard, for a reason.