# Git - Repo and Tools

## Clone

Clone repo by git, it works when the index file is not corrupted

`git clone <repo>`

You can clone the repo also by wget when all files are accessible

`wget -r http://domain/.git`

Detect changes in your local git repository

`git diff`

## Browse

Browse the git repository manually.

```
URL/.git/config
URL/.git/HEAD
URL/.git/refs/heads/master
URL/.git/objects/xx/hash # where xx is 1 first byte in hex of the hash
git cat-file -p <hash>
```

## Create repo

`git init`

copy objects into the /objects directory under first byte hash subfolder

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