It's impossible to be sure without knowing what other files you have, but it sounds like the tarball you've got might just be the .git directory of your application. Try using git clone
to clone from the root of the unpacked tarball—you can clone from a local repository just as easily as from a remote one.
If you've extracted the tarball into some_dir
, then you'll want to:
- Create a new directory somewhere (your app will go here); I'll call it
my_app
. cd
intomy_app
.- Run
git clone some_dir .
to clone the extracted tarball (which is effectively a bare repository) as a new repo with a working tree inmy_app
.