Re: Newbie question

kinley [off-list ref] 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
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