How to delete or change directory of a cloned git repository on a local computer

Question

Used git clone  url  to clone an open source project but it cloned to the   C  Documents and Setings  USER project  What I wanted to do is clone the project to C  project  I don t want to have duplicate project clones on my local machine   How do I go about moving it to that location or deleting the existing repository hopefully that s a correct term  and cloning it again   I assume after deleting I should use something like the following to clone it to the desired location     git clone  url  C  project

User · Answer

Just move it     command line    move  C  Documents and Setings  USER project  C  project   or just drag the folder in explorer    Git won t care where it is - all the metadata for the repository is inside a folder called  git inside your project folder

User · Answer

You can just delete that directory that you cloned the repo into  and re-clone it wherever you d like

User · Answer

I m assuming you re using Windows  and GitBASH   You can just delete the folder  C     project  with no adverse effects     Then in git bash  you can do cd c     This changes the directory you re working in to C    Then you can do git clone  url   This will create a folder called  project  on C   with the contents of the repo     If you d like to name it something else  you can do  git clone  url   something else   For example cd c   git clone git github com username repo git MyRepo  This would create a folder at  C  MyRepo  with the contents of the remote repository

User · Answer

You could try this via SSH  rm -rf foldernamehere

User · Answer

Go to working directory where you project folder  cloned folder  is placed  Now delete the folder  in windows just right click and do delete  in command line use rm -r  folder name  this worked for me

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