git clone from another directory

Question

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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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 #)$ 

Answer 5

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

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

Answer 6

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

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