Re: Cloning into an existing directory

[Brent Goodrick <bgoodr@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Brent Goodrick <bgoodr@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1. Move aside each file it complains about
> > 2. Run the git-checkout command again
> > 3. Move each file back to their original names, thus creating a local
> > edit w.r.t. git
>
> Actually, on my git (1.6.0.4) this just magically works due to the
> fact that 'git init' sets up the repository with HEAD pointing to
> refs/heads/master (which doesn't exist yet) and you go ahead and
> create the master branch with the 'git branch' command.
>
> In other words, in this particular situation the 'git checkout'
> command is completely unnecessary and if you just run a 'git status'
> you should already see that git sees all the differences already as
> local edits (assuming you didn't call you branch in the 'git branch'
> step something other than master).

Well, it does show them as local edits, and actually shows the file as
deleted. I ended up having to do a git-add on those files and commit
them, which will work for me.

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