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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: kinley <arjuncode@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Newbie question
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 01:31:50 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31v8pl11m.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
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'.

> 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.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-20  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-19 23:51 Newbie question kinley
2010-09-19 23:59 ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20  0:50   ` kinley
2010-09-20  1:47     ` Imran M Yousuf
2010-09-20  6:55     ` Kevin Ballard
2010-09-20 19:32       ` kinley
2010-09-20  8:31 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2010-09-20  8:39 ` Alex Riesen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-23  4:59 George Spelvin
2010-09-23  6:29 ` Thomas Hochstein
2009-07-03 18:39 newbie question Alex K
2009-07-03 19:12 ` dloewenherz
2009-07-03 19:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-07-04  0:29   ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-07-06 12:11     ` Michael J Gruber
2006-05-16  7:03 Li Yang-r58472
2006-05-16  7:09 ` Matthias Kestenholz

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