{"thread":{"id":"30789","subject":"git clone command","startedAt":"2012-06-13T05:09:36Z","lastAt":"2012-06-20T20:49:33Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Paa Kojo Konduah Amos","Neal Kreitzinger"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"193522","messageId":"4FD82090.8010509@gmail.com","threadId":"30789","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"git clone command","fromName":"Paa Kojo Konduah Amos","fromEmail":"pkkamos@gmail.com","sentAt":"2012-06-13T05:09:36Z","receivedAt":"2012-06-13T05:09:36Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"pkkamos@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"hello, i have been working with git for some time now... and i have just \nbeen hit with a serious problem in the middle of a major deployment of \nour project.\n\nProblem: when i do a \"git clone\" on the server url without specifying \nthe actual git repository..the command still pulls files of a previous \nclone rather than warning me the repository does not exist.\n\nPLEASE what might be wrong...is there something like clean some \ncache.... i am really hot now!!!\n\nThanks.\n"},{"id":"193995","messageId":"4FE2375D.5010409@gmail.com","threadId":"30789","inReplyTo":"4FD82090.8010509@gmail.com","subject":"Re: git clone command","fromName":"Neal Kreitzinger","fromEmail":"nkreitzinger@gmail.com","sentAt":"2012-06-20T20:49:33Z","receivedAt":"2012-06-20T20:49:33Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"nkreitzinger@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"On 6/13/2012 12:09 AM, Paa Kojo Konduah Amos wrote:\n> hello, i have been working with git for some time now... and i have just\n> been hit with a serious problem in the middle of a major deployment of\n> our project.\n>\n> Problem: when i do a \"git clone\" on the server url without specifying\n> the actual git repository..the command still pulls files of a previous\n> clone rather than warning me the repository does not exist.\n>\n> PLEASE what might be wrong...is there something like clean some\n> cache.... i am really hot now!!!\n>\n\ngit-clone manpage states:\n\n<directory>\nThe name of a new directory to clone into. The \"humanish\" part of the \nsource repository is used if no directory is explicitly given (repo for \n/path/to/repo.git and foo for host.xz:foo/.git). Cloning into an \nexisting directory is only allowed if the directory is empty.\n\nI assume you're ending up with a new dir/worktree named after the \nhumanish part of the repo-name in your url?  mystery solved?\n\nv/r,\nneal\n"}]}