Just a heads-up. This took me by surprise. And I suppose it will be
the same even if the subrepo is a real subproject.
To illustrate:
(
mkdir super && cd super
git init
echo 0 > a; git add a; git commit -m0
echo 2 >> a; git commit -a -m1
echo 3 >> a; git commit -a -m2
cp -a .git sub
cd sub
git --bare config --bool core.bare true
git repack -a -d
)
Unexpectedly, the "super" repo is repacked, even though repack is
called from the "sub". To actually repack the repo in the current
directory if it is bare, use "git --bare repack ...".
This kind of makes core.bare pointless: can't rely on it anyway.