Git cloning into current directory [duplicate]

Question

I am trying to clone a repository into my current directory. However, when I clone it with this command:

git clone REPOURL .

it says:

fatal: destination path '.' already exists and is not an empty directory.

The folders that I am cloning into already exist and I just want to add files that I have in the git repo.

Is there any way I can do this?

Thanks

Answer 1

You don't need to clone the repository, you need to add remote and then add the files to the repository.

git init
git remote add origin <remote_url>
git fetch --all --prune
git checkout master
git add -A .
git commit -m "Adding my files..."

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In details:

You already have a remote repository and you want to add files to this repository.

1. First you have to "tell" git that the current directory is a git repository
   git init

2. Then you need to tell git what is the url of the remote repository
   git remote add origin <remote_url>

3. Now you will need to grab the content of the remote repository (all the content - branches, tags etc) git fetch --all --prune

4. Check out the desired branch (master in this example)
   git checkout <branch>

5. Add the new files to the current <branch> git add -A .

6. Commit your changes git commit

7. Upload your changes back to the remote repository git push origin <branch>

Answer 2

You can use the git clone --bare origin_url syntax to just clone files(not repo foder).

Try:

mkdir tmp
cd tmp
git clone --bare origin_url ./