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Blue Ice
Blue Ice

Reputation: 7920

git pull to a specific folder, not the home folder

When I git pull repository info, all of my repository folders end up in my user's root folder. Instead, I want git to pull each repository into a folder with the repository name, but inside my a folder called git-repositories in the root of my user.

I tried cd'ing into ~/git-repositories/blogger-templates (blogger-templates is the repo name) and then running

git pull https://github.com/blue-ice/blogger-templates

but all of the folders from the repository ended up in my root folder instead. How can I make them go into ~/git-repositories/blogger-templates?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 606

Answers (2)

John Jesus
John Jesus

Reputation: 2404

Visit the github repo web page at:

https://github.com/blue-ice/blogger-templates

On the right sidebar, you'll see this:

SSH Clone URL
[email protected]:blue-ice/blogger-templates.git

The first time you retrieve a repository from GitHub, you want to use git clone

git clone [email protected]:blue-ice/blogger-templates.git

After the initial git clone, you can use git pull and things will behave as you expect.

Upvotes: 1

kaman
kaman

Reputation: 376

Seems like you 've made/cloned a repo in your home dir. Run git clone url_to_remote path_where_you_want_your_local. Now git pull will update files in the path you provided in the second argument (note that you have to be inside the local repo dir to pull). Also it would be good to remove .git dir from your home.

Upvotes: 1

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