# Newbie question 8 messages from 2010-09-19 to 2010-09-20. Participants: kinley, Andrew Keller, Imran M Yousuf, Kevin Ballard, Jakub Narebski, Alex Riesen. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25158 ## kinley, 2010-09-19 23:51 Subject: Newbie question Message-ID: <1284940287810-5548737.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1284940287810-5548737.post%40n2.nabble.com ``` 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 -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Newbie-question-tp5548737p5548737.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ``` ## Andrew Keller, 2010-09-19 23:59 Subject: Re: Newbie question Message-ID: <04E0C626-C16F-43A9-9AB7-41760B682F13@kellerfarm.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/04E0C626-C16F-43A9-9AB7-41760B682F13%40kellerfarm.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 ``` ## kinley, 2010-09-20 00:50 Subject: Re: Newbie question Message-ID: <1284943806785-5548842.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1284943806785-5548842.post%40n2.nabble.com In-Reply-To: <04E0C626-C16F-43A9-9AB7-41760B682F13@kellerfarm.com> ``` 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. -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Newbie-question-tp5548737p5548842.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ``` ## Imran M Yousuf, 2010-09-20 01:47 Subject: Re: Newbie question Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTi%3DGV2WKKBS%3D_oCO6qyusyXFxj_Gp5LWuPV6yeOj%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1284943806785-5548842.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` 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 wrote: > > 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. > -- > View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Newbie-question-tp5548737p5548842.html > Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Imran M Yousuf Entrepreneur & CEO Smart IT Engineering Ltd. Dhaka, Bangladesh Twitter: @imyousuf - http://twitter.com/imyousuf Blog: http://imyousuf-tech.blogs.smartitengineering.com/ Mobile: +880-1711402557 ``` ## Kevin Ballard, 2010-09-20 06:55 Subject: Re: Newbie question Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/F47832A2-C25F-470A-81DE-9670F13DD4C2%40sb.org In-Reply-To: <1284943806785-5548842.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` 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 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. > -- > View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Newbie-question-tp5548737p5548842.html > Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2010-09-20 08:31 Subject: Re: Newbie question Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m31v8pl11m.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <1284940287810-5548737.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` kinley 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 " instead of 'scp'. > 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 /.git subdirectory, and use "git checkout" from within it. You should have checked out files in / directory. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git ``` ## Alex Riesen, 2010-09-20 08:39 Subject: Re: Newbie question Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTikFSEbK%2Bho5mvaOfmv7a5SB7Sp2_5H-5dhbfaky%40mail.gmail.com 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. ``` ## kinley, 2010-09-20 19:32 Subject: Re: Newbie question Message-ID: <1285011152025-5551972.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1285011152025-5551972.post%40n2.nabble.com In-Reply-To: ``` Thanks Kevin and All. Specifying the path of git-upload-pack helped. Thanks once again. -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Newbie-question-tp5548737p5551972.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ```