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From: Russell Steicke <russellsteicke@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Cloning into an existing directory
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:31:55 +0000
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On 2/16/09, Brent Goodrick <bgoodr@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I would like to manage my startup scripts such as .bashrc and other
>  setup files relative to my HOME directory using Git. However,
>  git-clone disallows cloning into the existing "." directory, but only
>  allows cloning into a subdirectory that does not yet exist.  If my
>  home directory is /home/brentg and my remote repository is on
>  remote_machine:~brentg/my_setup.git then git clone in my home
>  directory on the local machine creates /home/brentg/my_setup with
>  files such as .bashrc inside it, which is not what I want. I want them
>  checked out and managed _in_ the current working directory, and not to
>  mess with other files or directories that already exist that are never
>  to be managed by git.

cd
git init
git remote add origin remote_machine:~brentg/my_setup.git
git fetch
git branch master origin/master
git checkout master

You may have to delete .bashrc and others before git will overwrite
them on checkout.



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