git clone into non-empty directory

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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:

$ cd ~/git/foo
$ git init
$ git remote add origin git@github.com:yourname/foo.git
$ git fetch
$ git branch master origin/master
$ git checkout master
$ git add -A
$ git commit -m 'first commit'
$ git push

thanks!

Awesome magic!

Thanks !

Works like a charm!

If files that are tracked in the source location, already exist in the target directory, git will complain:

$ git checkout master
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout:
        file1
        file2
        ...
Please move or remove them before you switch branches.
Aborting 

To force git to overwrite these files, use git checkout -f master

thanks for this

THNX!

If files that are tracked in the source location, already exist in the target directory, git will complain:
To force git to overwrite these files, use git checkout -f master

Thanks dude, @glinders , you helped me develop my workflow for cloning an existing Laravel repo into a new Laravel project on a new server:

assuming your Laravel directory is in ~/laravel:

cd ~/laravel
rm -rf .git
git init
git remote add origin https://username@bitbucket.org/user/project.git
git fetch
git checkout -f master

If files that are tracked in the source location, already exist in the target directory, git will complain:
To force git to overwrite these files, use git checkout -f master

Thanks dude, @glinders , you helped me develop my workflow for cloning an existing Laravel repo into a new Laravel project on a new server:

assuming your Laravel directory is in ~/laravel:

cd ~/laravel
rm -rf .git
git init
git remote add origin https://username@bitbucket.org/user/project.git
git fetch
git checkout -f master

puuh this works thx a lot !!