Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 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.
What he said. Cloning it in the first place is the easier approach, but what happened is that you got a copy of a "bare" repostitory (without checked-out files, suitable only for remote access), which is typically in a directory named "project.git".
What you want is a normal tree, where all the git files are in "project/.git"
This is pretty easy to do:
mkdir project mv project.git project/.git cd project git config core.bare true git checkout
That does 3 things: - Set up the directory structure correctly, - unset the core.bare flag, which disables certain commands that make no sense on a bare repository, and - Check out a working copy
