How do I clone into a non-empty directory?

Question

I have directory A with files matching directory B. Directory A may have other needed files. Directory B is a git repo.

I want to clone directory B to directory A bu

Answer 1

I was looking for something similar, and here's what I came up with:

My situation is one where I have an active web tree and I was trying to create a remote repository for it without moving any of the files in the current web tree. Here's what I did:

1. Go to the web tree and run git init
2. Go to the intended location of the repository and run: git clone --bare /path/to/web/repo
3. Edit the config file in my remote repo and remove the [remote "origin"] section.
4. Add a [remote "origin"] section to .git/config in the web tree pointing to the new remote repo.