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Re: Cloning into an existing, non-empty directory?

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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
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Apr 23, 2011, 10:28 UTC
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2011/4/23 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
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>> 2) running `git pull` as suggested results in:
>>
>> fatal: /usr/lib/git-core/git-pull cannot be used without a working tree.
>>
>> which can be worked around by using --work-tree and --git-dir . Not
>> ideal, but workeable if I accept the race condition.
>
> Weird.  Maybe chdir-ing into the work tree will help?  (Traditionally,
> git commands tend to be run from within the work tree, so I wouldn't
> be too surprised if some commands do not like being run from outside.)
Does this patch help?
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/150986
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Duy
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  1. Richard HartmannApr 21, 2011
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  3. Richard HartmannApr 22, 2011
  4. Jonathan NiederApr 23, 2011
  5. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 23, 2011
  6. Jonathan NiederApr 23, 2011
  7. Richard HartmannApr 23, 2011
  8. Jonathan NiederApr 25, 2011
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  10. Jonathan NiederApr 25, 2011
  11. Jeff KingApr 25, 2011
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