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

This worked for me:

git init
git remote add origin PATH/TO/REPO
git fetch
git reset origin/master  # Required when the versioned files existed in path before "git init" of this repo.
git checkout -t origin/master

NOTE: -t will set the upstream branch for you, if that is what you want, and it usually is.

Answer 2

A slight modification to one of the answers that worked for me:

git init
git remote add origin PATH/TO/REPO
git pull origin master

to start working on the master branch straight away.

Answer 3

I got the same issues when trying to clone to c/code

But this folder contains a whole bunch of projects.

I created a new folder in c/code/newproject and mapped my clone to this folder.

git for desktop then asked of my user and then cloned fine.

Answer 4

Here's what I ended up doing when I had the same problem (at least I think it's the same problem). I went into directory A and ran git init.

Since I didn't want the files in directory A to be followed by git, I edited .gitignore and added the existing files to it. After this I ran git remote add origin '<url>' && git pull origin master et voíla, B is "cloned" into A without a single hiccup.

Answer 5

I have used this a few moments ago, requires the least potentially destructive commands:

cd existing-dir
git clone --bare repo-to-clone .git
git config --unset core.bare
git remote rm origin
git remote add origin repo-to-clone
git reset

And voilá!

Answer 6

this is work for me ，but you should merge remote repository files to the local files:

git init
git remote add origin url-to-git
git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/master master
git fetch
git status