What's the -practical- difference between a Bare and non-Bare repository?

Question

I\'ve been reading about the bare and non-bare / default repositores in Git. I haven\'t been able to understand quite well (theoretically) about the differences between them

Answer 1

This is not a new answer, but it helped me to understand the different aspects of the answers above (and it is too much for a comment).

Using Git Bash just try:

me@pc MINGW64 /c/Test
$ ls -al
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 1 myid 1049089 0 Apr  1 11:35 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 myid 1049089 0 Apr  1 11:11 ../

me@pc MINGW64 /c/Test
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Test/.git/

me@pc MINGW64 /c/Test (master)
$ ls -al
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 1 myid 1049089 0 Apr  1 11:35 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 myid 1049089 0 Apr  1 11:11 ../
drwxr-xr-x 1 myid 1049089 0 Apr  1 11:35 .git/

me@pc MINGW64 /c/Test (master)
$ cd .git

me@pc MINGW64 /c/Test/.git (GIT_DIR!)
$ ls -al
total 15
drwxr-xr-x 1 myid 1049089   0 Apr  1 11:35 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 myid 1049089   0 Apr  1 11:35 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 myid 1049089 130 Apr  1 11:35 config
-rw-r--r-- 1 myid 1049089  73 Apr  1 11:35 description
-rw-r--r-- 1 myid 1049089  23 Apr  1 11:35 HEAD
drwxr-xr-x 1 myid 1049089   0 Apr  1 11:35 hooks/
drwxr-xr-x 1 myid 1049089   0 Apr  1 11:35 info/
drwxr-xr-x 1 myid 1049089   0 Apr  1 11:35 objects/
drwxr-xr-x 1 myid 1049089   0 Apr  1 11:35 refs/

Same with git --bare:

me@pc MINGW64 /c/Test
$ ls -al
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 1 myid 1049089 0 Apr  1 11:36 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 myid 1049089 0 Apr  1 11:11 ../

me@pc MINGW64 /c/Test
$ git init --bare
Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Test/

me@pc MINGW64 /c/Test (BARE:master)
$ ls -al
total 23
drwxr-xr-x 1 myid 1049089   0 Apr  1 11:36 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 myid 1049089   0 Apr  1 11:11 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 myid 1049089 104 Apr  1 11:36 config
-rw-r--r-- 1 myid 1049089  73 Apr  1 11:36 description
-rw-r--r-- 1 myid 1049089  23 Apr  1 11:36 HEAD
drwxr-xr-x 1 myid 1049089   0 Apr  1 11:36 hooks/
drwxr-xr-x 1 myid 1049089   0 Apr  1 11:36 info/
drwxr-xr-x 1 myid 1049089   0 Apr  1 11:36 objects/