title: git clone --bare: fatal: repository does not exist
body: <p>I am using git version 1.7.10.4 on debian Wheezy.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to create a new repository (according to the 'manual of <a href="http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-on-the-Server-Getting-Git-on-a-Server" rel="noreferrer">git-scm.com</a>)
  However everytime I get this fatal error:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>fatal: repository 'poekoe' does not exist
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So this is what I type at command line:</p>
  
  <pre><code>git clone --bare --progress poekoe poekoe.git
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I also tried this on a sqeeze distribution and there it works fine. 
  (git version on squeeze is: git version 1.7.2.5)</p>
  
  <p>All installed packages on the wheezy distribution are:</p>
  
  <pre><code>libcurl4-gnutls-dev
  libexpat1-dev
  gettext
  vim
  libz-dev
  libssl-dev
  git
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>all to get this working. </p>
  
  <p>Does anybody know how to fix this?
  I am running the script as root</p>