Why can't I push to this bare repository?

Question

Can you explain what is wrong with this workflow?

$ git init --bare bare
Initialized empty Git repository in /work/fun/git_experiments/bare/
$ git clone bare         


        

Answer 1

This related question's answer provided the solution for me... it was just a dumb mistake:

Remember to commit first!

https://stackoverflow.com/a/7572252

If you have not yet committed to your local repo, there is nothing to push, but the Git error message you get back doesn't help you too much.