Re: Newbie question

From: Andrew Keller <andrew@kellerfarm.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2010, 23:59 UTC
Message-ID: <04E0C626-C16F-43A9-9AB7-41760B682F13@kellerfarm.com>
In-Reply-To: <1284940287810-5548737.post@n2.nabble.com>

On Sep 19, 2010, at 7:51 PM, kinley wrote:

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> Hi,
> I am new to question. Please help me with this.
> I copied an already existing project from a remote server using scp to my
> local directory.
> The contents of this directory are
>   branches
>   config
>   description
>   HEAD
>   hooks
>   info
>   objects
>   ref

This directory listing is what you would expect if you were looking at the repository itself.  To access your files in the repository, you want to create a non-bare (normal) clone.

git clone path-to-git-repo

On a side note, git can clone over ssh, so you don't need to use scp to copy a project over the network.  If your intent is to create a clone of a remote project on your computer, then cloning over ssh generally takes fewer commands than doing the copy manually first.

~ Andrew Keller