Where does Git store files

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I just ran the following commands on my Ruby on Rails project   git init git add   git commit -a -m  Initial    Where does Git actually store this repository   It s on my local machine  but where

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In a  git directory in the root of the project  Unlike some other version control systems  notably CVS  there are no additional directories in any of the subdirectories

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In the root directory of the project there is a hidden  git directory that contains configuration  the repository etc

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I m on Windows and found my location by right clicking the Git Bash program in my Start menu and selecting Properties   The Shortcut tab shows the  Start in   value   For me  it was  HOMEDRIVE  HOMEPATH   so I opened a CMD prompt and typed echo  HOMEDRIVE  HOMEPATH  to see the actual location

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It will create your repository in the  git folder in the current directory

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If you are looking for where the project folder was created  I noticed when I typed in the git bash     git init projectName   it will tell me  where the project folder is for that project

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I also couldn t find my git repository  I am using Windows 8 and created my repository  by mistake  under C  Program Files  x86  Git  I could see the repository folder in bash but not in cmd or Windows Explorer    Then I remembered about Windows s  Virtual Store  feature  My repository folder was actually created under C  Users  lt username gt  AppData Local VirtualStore Program Files  x86  Git  lt myrepo gt  and in there was my  git folder

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If you are on an English Windows machine  Git s default storage path will be C  Documents and Settings  lt  current user gt    because on Windows the default Git local settings resides at C  Documents and Settings  lt  current user gt   git and so Git creates a separate folder for each repo clone at C  Documents and Settings  lt  current user gt   and there are all the directories of cloned project   For example  if you install Symfony 2 with  git clone git   github com symfony symfony git   the Symfony directory and file will be at  C  Documents and Settings  lt  current user gt  symfony

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To be a bit more complete  Git works with    the working tree  the root of which being where you made a git init   path to the Git repository   where there is a  git  which will store the revisions of all your files    GIT DIR is an environment variable  which can be an absolute path or relative path to current working directory   If it is not defined  the  path to the git repository  is by default at the root directory of your working tree  again  where you made a git init    You can actually execute any Git command from anywhere from your disk  provided you specify the working tree path and the Git repository path   git command --git-dir  lt path gt  --work-tree  lt path gt    But if you execute them in one of the subdirectories of a Git repository  with no GIT-DIR or working tree path specified   Git will simply look in the current and parent directories until it find a  git  assume this it also the root directory of your working tree  and use that  git as the only container for all the revisions of your files   Note   git is also hidden in Windows  msysgit   You would have to do a dir  AH to see it  git 2 9  June 2016  allows to configure that     Note that Git 2 18  Q2 2018  is starting the process to evolve how Git is storing objects  by refactoring the internal global data structure to make it possible to open multiple repositories  work with and then close them   See commit 4a7c05f  commit 1fea63e  23 Mar 2018  by Jonathan Nieder  artagnon   See commit bd27f50  commit ec7283e  commit d2607fa  commit a68377b  commit e977fc7  commit e35454f  commit 332295d  commit 2ba0bfd  commit fbe33e2  commit cf78ae4  commit 13068bf  commit 77f012e  commit 0b20903  commit 93d8d1e  commit ca5e6d2  commit cfc62fc  commit 13313fc  commit 9a00580  23 Mar 2018  by Stefan Beller  stefanbeller    Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit cf0b179  11 Apr 2018        repository  introduce raw object store field      The raw object store field will contain any objects needed for access   to objects in a given repository       This patch introduces the raw object store and populates it with the   objectdir  which used to be part of the repository struct       As the struct gains members  we ll also populate the function to clear   the memory for these members       In a later step  we ll introduce a struct object parser  that will   complement the object parsing in a repository struct           The raw object parser is the layer that will provide access to raw object content    while the higher level object parser code will parse raw objects and   keeps track of parenthood and other object relationships using  struct object          For now only add the lower level to the repository struct

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For me when I run git clone  Git will store the cloned package in the directory that I am running the command from      - I use windows    for example    C  Users user gt git clone https   github com broosaction aria   will create a folder    C  Users user aria

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usually it goes to Documents folder in windows   C  Users  lt  name of user account   Documents GitHub

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