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How to do git clone in a non empty directory?
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git clone repo-url tmp && mv tmp/.git . && rm -rf tmp && git reset --hard
Explaination:
1) Do git clone in a tmp directory from current directory
2) move .git from tmp to the parent directory of tmp directory
3) reset git from the current directory
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