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You have a folder with files

$ mkdir -p ~/foo && cd ~/foo
$ touch NEWFILE

You cannot git clone into it because the directory is not empty. To do so:

$ cd ~/foo
$ git init
$ git remote add origin https://github.com/YOU/YOURPROJECT.git
$ git fetch
$ git branch master origin/master
$ git checkout master
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