Newbie question

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.

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

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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

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

Thanks for your help.

Actually now I tried doing this

git clone ssh://user@host/~/GPUProject/Histogram

but getting

bash: git-upload-pack: command not found fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I tried several ways of specifying the path of the URL assuming that this could be a path issue but every time it gives the same error.

Thanks once again.

Try: git clone user@host:/home/user/GPUProject/Histogram/.git/

I added .git assuming that, that is the folder to which you gave the ls output in your first email, the path should be upto that folder.

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:50 AM, kinley <arjuncode@gmail.com> wrote:

It sounds like git-upload-pack is not in the PATH of your non-interactive shell. Assuming git is installed on the remote host, you should ssh in to it and figure out where git is installed (run `git --exec-path`), then run your command like so

git clone -u /path/to/libexec/git-core/git-upload-pack ssh://user@host/~/GPUProject/Histogram

In my case that path is /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-upload-pack.

-Kevin Ballard

On Sep 19, 2010, at 5:50 PM, kinley wrote:

Thanks Kevin and All.

Specifying the path of git-upload-pack helped.

Thanks once again.

kinley <arjuncode@gmail.com> writes:

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

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.

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 01:51, kinley <arjuncode@gmail.com> wrote:

It is SHA-1

try this:

  git clone . ../Histogram

But others are right, and you should have used git clone, instead of scp.