Re: Newbie question

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 20, 2010, 08:31 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <1284940287810-5548737.post@n2.nabble.com>

kinley <arjuncode@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

In the future use "git clone <scp-location>" instead of 'scp'.

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> 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.
> 
> Is there any command to retrieve the source files ? 
> As per manual, only then I guess I can add them to git.

You have the repository itself (the object database containg all version info plus other info). Put those files and directories into <project>/.git subdirectory, and use "git checkout" from within it. You should have checked out files in <project>/ directory.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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