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Jekson
Jekson

Reputation: 3262

How to avoid creating a subfolder when cloning a repository

The project on gilab is contained in the spend folder. I'm creating an empty folder at my local and run git init. Then I execute the command git clone <repo adress> . With a dot at the end and get

fatal: destination path '.' already exists and is not an empty directory.

If I remove the dot at the end, the repository is uploaded to the subfolder.

spend
    .git
    spend
        repo_file and folder

How can I do this without creating an extra folder?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 629

Answers (1)

mnestorov
mnestorov

Reputation: 4494

Since this project already exists somewhere and you are getting it by git clone, a previous step of git init is not needed.

Thus, go to your directory, where you want the project folder to be, then do a simple git clone.

Upvotes: 1

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