Re: Newbie question

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

George Spelvin wrote:

git config core.bare true

[...]

- unset the core.bare flag, which disables certain commands that
  make no sense on a bare repository, and

Shouldn't that be
| git config core.bare false
then?

Regards,
-thh