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These are my steps to create a remote git repository and push to it the data that I have in my local machine: 

# mkdir -p git/sports.git
# cd git/
# cd sports.git/
# git init --bare
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/tirengarfio/git/sports.git/
# exit
logout
Connection to 173.203.57.258 closed.
(master)]$ git remote add origin ssh://[email protected]/home/tirengarfio/git/sports.git
(master)]$ git push --all
[email protected]'s password: 
Counting objects: 1271, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (1236/1236), done.
Writing objects: 100% (1271/1271), 1.11 MiB, done.
Total 1271 (delta 37), reused 0 (delta 0)
To ssh://[email protected]/home/tirengarfio/git/sports.git
 * [new branch]      master -> master

When I go to /home/tirengarfio/git/sports.git/branches it is empty..

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    And what exactly is your question? Commented Jun 23, 2012 at 17:04
  • @iblue my question is: where are the files that i pushed? I expected they were inside the folder branches or any other part inside sports.git folder.. Commented Jun 23, 2012 at 17:14

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Hope this answers your question(s)...

Where are my files?

Git does not store the files in plain. It compresses them and stores then in a tree (and in so called packfiles). There is an article on gitready that explains the directory structure. For more details, you could refer to the manpage I linked below.

For details about the internal format, please see chapter 9 of the Pro Git book. Here is an online version:

Why is the branches directory empty?

The branches directory seems to exist only for legacy purposes. Which is documented in man 5 gitrepostory-layout:

branches

A slightly deprecated way to store shorthands to be used to specify URL to git fetch, git pull and git push commands is to store a file in branches/ and give name to these commands in place of repository argument.

For more details, see: What is the .git/branches folder used for?

How do I get the files out of the .git directory?

If you just want to access your files, the simplest way would be to clone your repository.

$ git clone /home/tirengarfio/git/sports.git/
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