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Things to remember when compiling and linking C/C++ programs

Things to remember when compiling/linking C/C++ software

by Angel Leon. March 17, 2015;

Last update on December 14, 2023

Updated on February 27, 2023

Updated August 29, 2019.

@davisford
davisford / gist:5039064
Last active February 9, 2022 13:39
git clone into non-empty directory

Let's say you start a project locally, and do some editing.

$ mkdir -p ~/git/foo && cd ~/git/foo
$ touch NEWFILE

Now you decide you want to create a new github repo and track it, but the directory is non-empty so git won't let you clone into it. You can fix this, thusly: