How to get Git to clone into current directory

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I m doing   git clone ssh   user host com home user private repos project hub git      I m getting      Fatal  destination path     already exists and is not an empty   directory    I know path   already exists  And I can assure that directory IS empty   I do ls inside and I see nothing    What am I missing here in order to clone that project into the current directory

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The following is probably not fully equivalent to a clone in all cases but did the trick for me:

git init .
git remote add -t \* -f origin <repository-url>
git checkout master

In my case, this produces a .git/config file which is equivalent to the one I get when doing a clone.

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simply put a dot next to it  git clone git github com user my-project git     From git help clone      Cloning into an existing directory is only allowed if the directory is empty    So make sure the directory is empty  check with ls -a   otherwise the command will fail

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Do   git clone https   user bitbucket org user projectname git     Directory must be empty

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Removing with      rm -rf      may get you into trouble or some more errors   If you have  path to folder  and would like to remove everything inside  but not that folder  just run      rm -rf  path to folder

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I used this to clone a repo to the current directory  which wasn t empty   Not necessarily clean living  but it was in a disposable docker container  git clone https   github com myself myRepo git temp cp -r temp     rm -rf temp  Here  I used cp -r instead of mv  since that copies hidden files and directories  Then dispose of the temporary directory with rm -rf

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Here was what I found   I see this   fatal  destination path  CouchPotatoServer  already exists and is not an empty directory    Amongst my searchings  I stumbled on to   https   couchpota to forum viewtopic php t 3943  Look for the entry by Clinton Hall    If you try this  as I did   you will probably get the access denied response  there was my 1st clue  so the initial error  for me   was actually eluding to the wrong root issue   Solution for this in windows  make sure you run cmd or git elevated  then run   git clone https   github com RuudBurger CouchPotatoServer git   The above was my issue and simply elevating worked for me

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The solution for Windows is to clone the repository to other folder and then copy and paste to the original location or just copy the  git invisible folder

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use   dot  at the end of your command like below  git clone URL

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Solution  On this case  the solution was using the dot  so  rm -rf     amp  amp  git clone ssh   user host com home user private repos project hub git    rm -rf     amp  amp  may be omitted if we are absolutely sure that the directory is empty   Credits go to   James McLaughlin on comments below

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Improving on  GoZoner s answer   git clone  lt repository gt  foo  shopt -s dotglob nullglob  mv foo      rmdir foo   The shopt command is taken from this SO answer and changes the behavior of the  mv  command on Bash to include dotfiles  which you ll need to include the  git directory and any other hidden files   Also note that this is only guaranteed to work as-is if the current directory     is empty  but it will work as long as none of the files in the cloned repo have the same name as files in the current directory  If you don t care what s in the current directory  you can add the -f  force  option to the  mv  command

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Andrew has answered it clearly here  But as simple as this also works even if the directory is not empty   git init   git remote add origin  lt repository-url gt  git pull origin master

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In addition to  StephaneDelcroix s answer  before using   git clone git github com user my-project git     make sure that your current dir is empty by using  ls -a

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it s useful to create a new file by mkdir filename then running the command of git clone xxxxx it does work in my computer

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git clone your-repo tmp  amp  amp  mv tmp  git    amp  amp  rm -rf tmp  amp  amp  git reset --hard

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To be sure that you could clone the repo  go to any temporary directory and clone the project there   git clone ssh   user host com home user private repos project hub git   This will clone your stuff into a project hub directory   Once the cloning has finished  you could move this directory wherever you want   mv project hub  path to new location   This is safe and doesn t require any magical stuff around

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shopt -s dotglob git clone ssh   user host com home user private repos project hub git tmp  amp  amp  mv tmp      amp  amp  rm -rf tmp

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If the current directory is empty  then this will work   git clone  lt repository gt  foo  mv foo   foo  git     rmdir foo

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I had this same need  In my case I had a standard web folder which is created by a web server install  For the purposes of this illustration let s say this is   server webroot  and webroot contains other standard files and folders  My repo just has the site specific files  html  javascript  CFML  etc    All I had to do was   cd  server webroot  git init  git pull  url to my repo git    You need to be careful to do the git init in the target folder because if you do NOT one of two things will happen    The git pull will simply fail with a message about no git file  in my case       fatal  Not a git repository  or any of the parent directories    git    If there is a  git file somewhere in the parent path to your folder your pulled repo will be created in THAT parent that contains the  git file  This happened to me and I was surprised by it  -    This did NOT disturb any of the  standard  files I have in my webroot folder but I did need to add them to the  gitignore file to prevent the inadvertent addition of them to subsequent commits   This seems like an easy way to  clone  into a non-empty directory  If you don t want the  git and  gitignore files created by the pull  just delete them after the pull

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git clone ssh   user host com home user private repos project hub git   pwd

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Further improving on  phatblat s answer   git clone --no-checkout  lt repository gt  tmp      amp  amp  mv tmp  git        amp  amp  rmdir tmp      amp  amp  git checkout master   as one liner   git clone --no-checkout  lt repository gt  tmp  amp  amp  mv tmp  git    amp  amp  rmdir tmp  amp  amp  git checkout master

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So I fixed this same error by deleting the hidden  git folder in my root directory  and then adding a period to the  git clone repo    in my root dist folder  This is in the context of a vue-cli webpack project  So what everyone else is saying is right  it usually means you have git tracking either in the folder  you are trying to clone into or in the parent folder or root of the folder in question

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Hmm    specifing the absolute current path using   pwd  worked for me   git clone https   github com me myproject git   pwd    git version  2 21 0

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