From: Andrew Keller Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:59:59 GMT Subject: Re: Newbie question 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: > 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