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Clone into a Non Empty Directory

Navigate to the desired directory you wish to work on and type the following commands in a terminal.

$ git init
$ git remote add origin PATH_TO_REPOSITORY # i.e. git@github.com:username/repository-name.git
$ git fetch origin
$ git reset origin/master  # Required when the versioned files existed in path before "git init" of this repo.
$ git checkout -t origin/master
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