Executing the command git clone [email protected]:whatever
creates a directory in my current folder named whatever
, and drops the contents of the Git repository into that folder:
/httpdocs/whatever/public
My problem is that I need the contents of the Git repository cloned into my current directory so that they appear in the proper location for the web server:
/httpdocs/public
I know how to move the files after I've cloned the repository, but this seems to break Git, and I'd like to be able to update just by calling git pull
. How can I do this?
The correct command is rsync -azv --exclude '. git' source/ destination/ , which copies contents of source folder to destination folder.
The fastest way to change the folder name when cloning a GitHub repository is to simply specify the name you want at the end of the git clone command. Here's a short video showing the entire process: When you're done downloading the repo do cd your-app-name to enter your directory with all the Create React App files.
The standard approach to clone is repository is using the git-clone command. But when you simply clone a repository with git clone <repository> , it creates a new directory with repository name at the current path in the file system and clones the repository inside it.
From your repository page on GitHub, click the green button labeled Clone or download, and in the “Clone with HTTPs” section, copy the URL for your repository. Next, on your local machine, open your bash shell and change your current working directory to the location where you would like to clone your repository.
Option A:
git clone [email protected]:whatever folder-name
Ergo, for right here
use:
git clone [email protected]:whatever .
Option B:
Move the .git
folder, too. Note that the .git
folder is hidden in most graphical file explorers, so be sure to show hidden files.
mv /where/it/is/right/now/* /where/I/want/it/ mv /where/it/is/right/now/.* /where/I/want/it/
The first line grabs all normal files, the second line grabs dot-files. It is also possibe to do it in one line by enabling dotglob (i.e. shopt -s dotglob
) but that is probably a bad solution if you are asking the question this answer answers.
Better yet:
Keep your working copy somewhere else, and create a symbolic link. Like this:
ln -s /where/it/is/right/now /the/path/I/want/to/use
For your case this would be something like:
ln -sfn /opt/projectA/prod/public /httpdocs/public
Which easily could be changed to test if you wanted it, i.e.:
ln -sfn /opt/projectA/test/public /httpdocs/public
without moving files around. Added -fn
in case someone is copying these lines (-f
is force, -n
avoid some often unwanted interactions with already and non-existing links).
If you just want it to work, use Option A, if someone else is going to look at what you have done, use Option C.
The example I think a lot of people asking this question are after is this. If you are in the directory you want the contents of the git repository dumped to, run:
git clone [email protected]:whatever .
The "." at the end specifies the current folder as the checkout folder.
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