Nicolás, This is very helpful, I was missing the concept of the "bare repository". This fills in a major gap in my git knowledge.
Thanks Peter On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 18:35, Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alva...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 9 Jan 2019, at 13:24, Peter Grandcourt <peter.grandco...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi. > > I have converted a large repository to git using the > svn-all-fast-export. > > But after the conversation there is no .git folder, and so I can’t run > any git commands. > > > > I can’t find anything in the instructions that would help. > > Any idea what to do next? > > > > Thank you > > Peter > > > > The resulting repository is a "bare repository". It doesn't have a .git > directory, it has the contents of the .git directory and no working copy. > You can run git commands on it (did you try?), such as pushing it to a > remote repository. > > If you want to use it locally straight away, you have to clone it to get a > working copy. > > -- > Nicolás
