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Here's a little trick for cloning into an existing directory. The long and short of it is that you're checking the project out into a temp folder, then moving the git directory, and then resetting to the head.
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# From: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2484349/24559
git clone --no-checkout repo-to-clone existing-dir/existing-dir.tmp
mv existing-dir/existing-dir.tmp/.git existing-dir/
rmdir existing-dir/existing-dir.tmp
cd existing-dir
git reset --hard HEAD # git thinks all files are deleted, this reverses that behaviour
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