Okay im new to Git and it might be a noob question, but i don't quite understand how to access this project of a friend of mine.
Basically i wanted to take a look at his project and learn from it. He sent me a zip file, i unzipped it and imported the folder into intellij(with maven, as this standard in our uni). Now unlike other projects that I've seen so far, it didn't contain any packages or java files whatsoever. Only an empty git file, pom.xml a log file and few xml files in an .idea folder
Going back to the folder in my browser it also contains a .git folder, which as far as i understand is supposed to be a git repository. Contains folders such as hooks, info, logs, refs and objects (last one is 2mb big, further contains numbered folders with randomly named files of no type) How can i access/display the contents of this folder?
Now i've tried looking it up but my search always leads to "creating a new repository from an existing project" etc and not to what im looking for. I only understand how to clone a repository from an url, but not from a git folder itself.
Anyways is it possible for me to open this folder/repository, if so how? Any help or "how-to links" would be appreciated
Edit: If its not supposed to work like that and java files etc still have to be there and sth. went wrong on my friends end - let me know
Edit2: Project was made with eclipse - i also tried opening it with that program but made no difference