diff --git a/pkg/app/app.go b/pkg/app/app.go
index c5fe30d2e..d4be7a8e6 100644
--- a/pkg/app/app.go
+++ b/pkg/app/app.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/jesseduffield/generics/slices"
 	"github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pkg/commands"
+	"github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pkg/commands/git_commands"
 	"github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pkg/commands/git_config"
 	"github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pkg/commands/oscommands"
 	"github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pkg/common"
@@ -151,16 +152,6 @@ func isDirectoryAGitRepository(dir string) (bool, error) {
 	return info != nil, err
 }
 
-func isBareRepo(osCommand *oscommands.OSCommand) (bool, error) {
-	res, err := osCommand.Cmd.New("git rev-parse --is-bare-repository").DontLog().RunWithOutput()
-
-	if err != nil {
-		return false, err
-	}
-
-	// The command returns output with a newline, so we need to strip
-	return strconv.ParseBool(strings.TrimSpace(res))
-}
 
 func openRecentRepo(app *App) bool {
 	for _, repoDir := range app.Config.GetAppState().RecentRepos {
@@ -231,7 +222,7 @@ func (app *App) setupRepo() (bool, error) {
 	}
 
 	// Run this afterward so that the previous repo creation steps can run without this interfering
-	if isBare, err := isBareRepo(app.OSCommand); isBare {
+	if isBare, err := git_commands.IsBareRepo(app.OSCommand); isBare {
 		if err != nil {
 			return false, err
 		}
diff --git a/pkg/commands/git_commands/status.go b/pkg/commands/git_commands/status.go
index 50b1fab57..d660dd8b0 100644
--- a/pkg/commands/git_commands/status.go
+++ b/pkg/commands/git_commands/status.go
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@ package git_commands
 
 import (
 	"path/filepath"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
 
-	gogit "github.com/jesseduffield/go-git/v5"
+	"github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pkg/commands/oscommands"
 	"github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pkg/commands/types/enums"
 )
 
@@ -49,13 +51,21 @@ func (self *StatusCommands) WorkingTreeState() enums.RebaseMode {
 	return enums.REBASE_MODE_NONE
 }
 
+func (self *StatusCommands) IsBareRepo() (bool, error) {
+	return IsBareRepo(self.os)
+}
+
+func IsBareRepo(osCommand *oscommands.OSCommand) (bool, error) {
+	res, err := osCommand.Cmd.New("git rev-parse --is-bare-repository").DontLog().RunWithOutput()
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, err
+	}
+
+	// The command returns output with a newline, so we need to strip
+	return strconv.ParseBool(strings.TrimSpace(res))
+}
+
 // IsInMergeState states whether we are still mid-merge
 func (self *StatusCommands) IsInMergeState() (bool, error) {
 	return self.os.FileExists(filepath.Join(self.dotGitDir, "MERGE_HEAD"))
 }
-
-func (self *StatusCommands) IsBareRepo() bool {
-	// note: could use `git rev-parse --is-bare-repository` if we wanna drop go-git
-	_, err := self.repo.Worktree()
-	return err == gogit.ErrIsBareRepository
-}
diff --git a/pkg/gui/recent_repos_panel.go b/pkg/gui/recent_repos_panel.go
index 73d6e54c5..0225f591a 100644
--- a/pkg/gui/recent_repos_panel.go
+++ b/pkg/gui/recent_repos_panel.go
@@ -158,7 +158,12 @@ func (gui *Gui) dispatchSwitchToRepo(path string, reuse bool) error {
 // updateRecentRepoList registers the fact that we opened lazygit in this repo,
 // so that we can open the same repo via the 'recent repos' menu
 func (gui *Gui) updateRecentRepoList() error {
-	if gui.git.Status.IsBareRepo() {
+	isBareRepo, err := gui.git.Status.IsBareRepo()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	if isBareRepo {
 		// we could totally do this but it would require storing both the git-dir and the
 		// worktree in our recent repos list, which is a change that would need to be
 		// backwards compatible