How do you clone a Git repository into a specific folder

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Executing the command git clone git github com 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

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For Windows user   1 gt  Open command prompt  2 gt  Change the directory to destination folder  Where you want to store your project in local machine   3 gt  Now go to project setting online From where you want to clone  4 gt  Click on clone  and copy the clone command  5 gt  Now enter the same on cmd    It will start cloning saving on the selected folder you given

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You can use following git command to clone with custom directory name git clone  lt git repo url gt   lt your custom directory name gt   Note  You don t need to create your custom directory because it will create automatically

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If you are using ssh for git cloning you can use the following command   git -C path clone git github com path to repo git  eg  git -C  home ubuntu  clone git github com kennethreitz requests git would pull the git repository for requests to your  home ubuntu  path

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If you are in the directory you want the contents of the git repository dumped to  run  git clone git github com origin    The  quot   quot  at the end specifies the current folder as the checkout folder

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Here s how I would do it  but I have made an alias to do it for me     cd  Downloads git  git clone https git foo poo git   There is probably a more elegant way of doing this  however I found this to be easiest for myself   Here s the alias I created to speed things along   I made it for zsh  but it should work just fine for bash or any other shell like fish  xyzsh  fizsh  and so on   Edit    zshrc    bashrc  etc  with your favorite editor  mine is Leafpad  so I would write   leafpad    zshrc    My personal preference  however  is to make a zsh plugin to keep track of all my aliases  You can create a personal plugin for oh-my-zsh by running these commands     cd    oh-my-zsh    cd plugins    mkdir your-aliases-folder-name  cd your-aliases-folder-name        In my case     oh-my-zsh plugins ev-aliases ev-aliases    leafpad your-zsh-aliases plugin zsh        Again  in my case  ev-aliases plugin zsh    Afterwards  add these lines to your newly created blank alises plugin file     Git aliases alias gc  cd   Downloads git  git clone      From here  replace your name with mine    Then  in order to get the aliases to work  they  along with zsh  have to be sourced-in  or whatever it s called   To do so  inside your custom plugin document add this      Ev s Aliases       Remember to re-source zsh after making any changes with these commands        These commands should also work  assuming ev-aliases have already been sourced before   allsource  source  ZSH oh-my-zsh sh   source  home ev  oh-my-zsh plugins ev-aliases ev-aliases plugin zsh  clear  sourceall  source  ZSH oh-my-zsh sh   source  home ev  oh-my-zsh plugins ev-aliases ev-aliases plugin zsh                                                 git aliases  alias gc  cd   Downloads git  git clone     alias gc  git clone     alias gc  cd  your git folder or whatever  git clone                                           Save your oh-my-zsh plugin  and run allsource  If that does not seem to work  simply run source  ZSH oh-my-zsh sh  source  home ev  oh-my-zsh plugins ev-aliases ev-aliases plugin zsh  That will load the plugin source which will allow you to use allsource from now on     I m in the process of making a Git repository with all of my aliases  Please feel free to check them out here  Ev s dot-files  Please feel free to fork and improve upon them to suit your needs

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Make sure you remove the  git repository if you are trying to check thing out into the current directory   rm -rf  git then git clone https   github com symfony symfony-sandbox git

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To clone git repository into a specific folder  you can use -C  lt path gt  parameter  e g   git -C  httpdocs clone git github com whatever   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 git github com whatever     Note that cloning into an existing directory is only allowed when the directory is empty   Since you re cloning into folder that is accessible for public  consider separating your Git repository from your working tree by using --separate-git-dir  lt git dir gt  or exclude  git folder in your web server configuration  e g  in  htaccess file

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There is a very easy option using Visual Studio Code   Install the GitLab workflow extension Hit Ctrl   Shift   P Enter the repository URL  that you copied from GitLab  GitHub  etc   Choose local repository location on your computer

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Clone   git clone git jittre unfuddle com jittre name git   Clone the  specific branch    git clone -b  branch-name  git jittre unfuddle com jittre name git

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From some reason this syntax is not standing out  git clone repo-url  folder  Here folder is an optional path to the local folder  which will be a local repository   Git clone will also pull code from remote repository into the local repository  In fact it is true  git clone repo-url     git init   git remote add origin repo-url   git pull

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Usage  git clone  lt repository gt    Clone the repository located at the  lt repository  onto the local machine  The original repository can be located on the local filesystem or on a remote machine accessible via HTTP or SSH   git clone  lt repo gt   lt directory gt    Clone the repository located at  lt repository  into the folder called  lt directory  on the local machine   Source  Setting up a repository

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Basic Git Repository Cloning  You clone a repository with  git clone  url    For example  if you want to clone the Stanford University Drupal Open Framework Git library called open framework  you can do so like this     git clone git   github com SU-SWS open framework git   That creates a directory named open framework  at your current local file system location   initializes a  git directory inside it  pulls down all the data for that repository  and checks out a working copy of the latest version  If you go into the newly created open framework directory  you   ll see the project files in there  ready to be worked on or used   Cloning a Repository Into a Specific Local Folder  If you want to clone the repository into a directory named something other than open framework  you can specify that as the next command-line option     git clone git github com SU-SWS open framework git mynewtheme   That command does the same thing as the previous one  but the target directory is called mynewtheme   Git has a number of different transfer protocols you can use  The previous example uses the git    protocol  but you may also see http s     or user server  path git  which uses the SSH transfer protocol

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Option A  git clone git github com whatever folder-name  Ergo  for right here use  git clone git github com 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

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When you move the files to where you want them  are you also moving the  git directory  Depending on your OS and configuration  this directory may be hidden     It contains the repo and the supporting files  while the project files that are in your  public directory are only the versions in the currently check-out commit  master branch by default

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Go into the folder   If the folder is empty  then   git clone git github com whatever     else  git init git remote add origin PATH TO REPO git fetch git checkout -t origin master

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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 git github com whatever     The     at the end specifies the current folder as the checkout folder

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Regarding this line from the original post       I know how to move the files after I ve cloned the repo  but this   seems to break git    I am able to do that and I don t see any issues so far with my add  commit  push  pull operations   This approach is stated above  but just not broken down into steps  Here s the steps that work for me    clone the repo into any fresh temporary folder cd into that root folder you just cloned locally copy the entire contents of the folder  including the   git directory - into any existing folder you like   say an eclipse project that you want to merge with your repo    The existing folder you just copied the files into   is now ready to interact with git

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To clone to Present Working Directory   git clone https   github com link git   To clone to Another Directory   git clone https   github com link git   Folder1 Folder2   Hope it Helps

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Although all of the answers above are good  I would like to propose a new method instead of using the symbolic link method in public html directory as proposed BEST in the accepted answer  You need to have access to your server virtual host configurations   It is about configuring virtual host of your web server directly pointing to the repository directory  In Apache you can do it like      DocumentRoot  var www html website your-git-repo   Here is an example of a virtual host file    lt VirtualHost   443 gt      ServerName example com      DocumentRoot  path to your-git-repo                                  lt  VirtualHost gt

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If you want to clone into the current folder  you should try this   git clone https   github com example example git

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