git clone from another directory

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I am trying to clone repo from another directory   Lets say I have one repo in C  folder1 and C  folder2  I want to clone the work in folder1 into folder2   What would I type into the command prompt to do this    It seems that often when cloning a URL is provided rather then a file path  however  at this moment I am just practicing and trying to get use to Git

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I am using git-bash in windows The simplest way is to change the path address to have the forward slashes   git clone C  Dev proposed    P S  Start the git-bash on the destination folder   Path used in clone       ---  c  Dev proposed   Original path in windows ---  c  Dev proposed

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It s as easy as it looks   14 27 05    mkdir gittests 14 27 11    cd gittests  14 27 13   gittests  mkdir localrepo 14 27 20   gittests  cd localrepo  14 27 21   gittests localrepo  git init Initialized empty Git repository in  home andwed gittests localrepo  git  14 27 22   gittests localrepo  master     cd    14 27 35   gittests  git clone localrepo copyoflocalrepo Cloning into  copyoflocalrepo     warning  You appear to have cloned an empty repository  done  14 27 42   gittests  cd copyoflocalrepo  14 27 46   gittests copyoflocalrepo  master     git status On branch master  Initial commit  nothing to commit  create copy files and use  git add  to track  14 27 46   gittests copyoflocalrepo  master

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Using the path itself didn t work for me   Here s what finally worked for me on MacOS   cd   projects git clone file    Users me projects myawesomerepo myawesomerepocopy   This also worked    git clone file   localhost Users me projects myawesomerepo myawesomerepocopy   The path itself worked if I did this   git clone --local myawesomerepo myawesomerepocopy

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Use git clone c  folder1 c  folder2  git clone  --template  lt template directory gt    -l   -s   --no-hardlinks   -q   -n   --bare   --mirror   -o  lt name gt    -b  lt name gt    -u  lt upload-pack gt    --reference  lt repository gt    --separate-git-dir  lt git dir gt    --depth  lt depth gt    -- no- single-branch   --recursive --recurse-submodules   --  lt repository gt    lt directory gt      lt repository gt       The  possibly remote  repository to clone from      See the URLS section below for more information on specifying repositories   lt directory gt       The name of a new directory to clone into      The  humanish  part of the source repository is used if no directory      is explicitly given  repo for  path to repo git and foo for host xz foo  git       Cloning into an existing directory is only allowed if the directory is empty

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None of these worked for me  I am using git-bash on windows  Found out the problem was with my file path formatting   WRONG   git clone F  DEV MY REPO  git   CORRECT   git clone  F DEV MY REPO  git   These commands are done from the folder you want the repo folder to appear in

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In case you have space in your path  wrap it in double quotes     git clone    serverName New Folder Target  f1

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cd  d c   git clone C  folder1 folder2   From the documentation for git clone      For local repositories  also supported by git natively  the following syntaxes may be used    path to repo git   file    path to repo git        These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent  except the former implies --local option

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It is worth mentioning that the command works similarly on Linux    git clone path to source folder path to destination folder

[git] git clone from another directory

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