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SeekingAlpha
SeekingAlpha

Reputation: 7797

git clone from another directory

I am trying to clone repo from another directory.

Lets say I have one repo in C:/folder1 and C:/folder2

I want to clone the work in folder1 into folder2.

What would I type into the command prompt to do this?

It seems that often when cloning a URL is provided rather then a file path, however, at this moment I am just practicing and trying to get use to Git.

Upvotes: 259

Views: 227631

Answers (8)

Mahmoud
Mahmoud

Reputation: 1038

I am using git-bash in windows.

The simplest solution is to just replace \ in the source folder path with forward slashes(/):

Example: c:\dev\source will become c:/dev/source

  1. Start the git-bash on the destination folder.

  2. Run the git clone using the forward slashed source folder path:

    git clone c:/dev/source

Upvotes: 5

kris larson
kris larson

Reputation: 30985

Using the path itself didn't work for me.

Here's what finally worked for me on MacOS:

cd ~/projects
git clone file:///Users/me/projects/myawesomerepo myawesomerepocopy

This also worked: 

git clone file://localhost/Users/me/projects/myawesomerepo myawesomerepocopy

The path itself worked if I did this:

git clone --local myawesomerepo myawesomerepocopy

Upvotes: 10

Yasir Jan
Yasir Jan

Reputation: 538

It is worth mentioning that the command works similarly on Linux: 

git clone path/to/source/folder path/to/destination/folder

Upvotes: 43

KANJICODER
KANJICODER

Reputation: 3885

None of these worked for me. I am using git-bash on windows. Found out the problem was with my file path formatting.

WRONG:

git clone F:\DEV\MY_REPO\.git

CORRECT:

git clone /F/DEV/MY_REPO/.git

These commands are done from the folder you want the repo folder to appear in.

Upvotes: 28

Yar
Yar

Reputation: 7447

In case you have space in your path, wrap it in double quotes:

$ git clone "//serverName/New Folder/Target" f1/

Upvotes: 9

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 136880

cd /d c:\
git clone C:\folder1 folder2

From the documentation for git clone:

For local repositories, also supported by git natively, the following syntaxes may be used:

/path/to/repo.git/

file:///path/to/repo.git/

These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except the former implies --local option.

Upvotes: 271

Bleeding Fingers
Bleeding Fingers

Reputation: 7129

Use git clone c:/folder1 c:/folder2

git clone [--template=<template_directory>] [-l] [-s] [--no-hardlinks]
[-q] [-n] [--bare] [--mirror] [-o <name>] [-b <name>] [-u <upload-pack>]
[--reference <repository>] [--separate-git-dir <git dir>] [--depth <depth>]
[--[no-]single-branch] [--recursive|--recurse-submodules] [--]<repository>
[<directory>]


<repository>

    The (possibly remote) repository to clone from.
    See the URLS section below for more information on specifying repositories.
<directory>

    The name of a new directory to clone into.
    The "humanish" part of the source repository is used if no directory 
    is explicitly given (repo for /path/to/repo.git and foo for host.xz:foo/.git).
    Cloning into an existing directory is only allowed if the directory is empty.

Upvotes: 6

Andreas Wederbrand
Andreas Wederbrand

Reputation: 39951

It's as easy as it looks.

14:27:05 ~$ mkdir gittests
14:27:11 ~$ cd gittests/
14:27:13 ~/gittests$ mkdir localrepo
14:27:20 ~/gittests$ cd localrepo/
14:27:21 ~/gittests/localrepo$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/andwed/gittests/localrepo/.git/
14:27:22 ~/gittests/localrepo (master #)$ cd ..
14:27:35 ~/gittests$ git clone localrepo copyoflocalrepo
Cloning into 'copyoflocalrepo'...
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
done.
14:27:42 ~/gittests$ cd copyoflocalrepo/
14:27:46 ~/gittests/copyoflocalrepo (master #)$ git status
On branch master

Initial commit

nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)
14:27:46 ~/gittests/copyoflocalrepo (master #)$

Upvotes: 10

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