From: Alex Riesen Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:39:58 GMT Subject: Re: Newbie question Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1284940287810-5548737.post@n2.nabble.com> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 01:51, 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 > > I checked all the directories and sub-directories but could not find a > single source code file (in C language). > All I can see at the leaf level appear to be MD5 hash code. It is SHA-1 > Is there any command to retrieve the source files ? try this: git clone . ../Histogram But others are right, and you should have used git clone, instead of scp.