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## gist:5540d237faadfee990e832f9fde492ef

      
        
          
            
              
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                karamgaby
                / gist:5540d237faadfee990e832f9fde492ef
            
            
              Created
              April 29, 2018 12:36
                — forked from davisford/gist:5039064
            
              
                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: