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December 16, 2013 14:46
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Git:Clone repo into non empty directory
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| git clone --no-checkout repo-to-clone existing-dir/existing-dir.tmp # might want --no-hardlinks for cloning local repo | |
| 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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