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I have directory A with files matching directory B. Directory A may have other needed files. Directory B is a git repo.
I want to clone directory B to directory A but git-clone won't allow me to since the directory is non-empty.
I was hoping it would just clone .git and since all the files match I could go from there?
I can't clone into an empty directory because I have files in directory A that are not in directory B and I want to keep them.
Copying .git is not an option since I want refs to push/pull with and I don't want to set them up manually.
Is there any way to do this?
Update: I think this works, can anyone see any problems? -->
cd a git clone --no-hardlinks --no-checkout ../b a.tmp mv a.tmp/.git . rm -rf a.tmp git unstage # apparently git thinks all the files are deleted if you don't do this 
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To clone git repository into a specific folder, you can use -C <path> parameter, e.g. Although it'll still create a whatever folder on top of it, so to clone the content of the repository into current directory, use the following syntax: cd /httpdocs git clone [email protected]:whatever .
In order to clone your repository to create a new bare repository, you run the clone command with the --bare option. By convention, bare repository directory names end with the suffix . git , like so: $ git clone --bare my_project my_project.
This worked for me:
git init git remote add origin PATH/TO/REPO git fetch git reset origin/master # Required when the versioned files existed in path before "git init" of this repo. git checkout -t origin/master NOTE: -t will set the upstream branch for you, if that is what you want, and it usually is.
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