I have a gitlab installation with some data missing from database (don't ask me how, I've got it already broken). I found repository, it looks like a .git directory
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0 drwxr-sr-x 2 openvpn polkitd 6 Nov 3 2021 refs
20 -rw-r--r-- 1 openvpn polkitd 17832 Nov 1 2021 packed-refs
0 drwxr-sr-x 34 openvpn polkitd 330 Nov 1 2021 objects
0 drwxr-sr-x 2 openvpn polkitd 33 Oct 26 2021 info
0 drwxr-sr-x 2 openvpn polkitd 6 Oct 20 2021 gitlab-worktree
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 openvpn polkitd 149 Oct 20 2021 config
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 openvpn polkitd 3008 Oct 7 2021 language-stats.cache
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 openvpn polkitd 23 Oct 7 2021 HEAD
4 drwxr-sr-x 2 openvpn polkitd 4096 Oct 7 2021 hooks
0 drwxr-sr-x 2 openvpn polkitd 6 Oct 7 2021 branches
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 openvpn polkitd 73 Oct 7 2021 description
Can I somehow recover files from it? Just renaming it to .git resulted in error, git does not recognize it as a repo.