Git repository created without a master branch

Question

I want to create a new shared git repository for a new project (on a VM).

I ran git --bare init from /.../git/new_proj.git, but a master br

Answer 1

Bare git repos (repos created by issuing git init --bare) will not have a working tree attached to them. What you can do is go to the repo /.../git/new_proj.git and add the bare repo you created as a remote: git remote add bare_origin and then try pushing your commits to this bare_origin repo form there.

Also, do you have any particular reason in creating a bare repository instead of a normal one?