What is says on the tin:

git annex fsck is a no-op in bare repos

See http://lists.madduck.net/pipermail/vcs-home/2011-June/000433.html

> Thinking about this some more, it would be difficult to do anything
> when bad content is found, since it also cannot update the location log.
> 
> So this may be another thing blocked by [[todo/branching]], assuming
> that is fixed in a way that makes `.git-annex` available to bare repos.
> --[[Joey]]