From: Diego Viola <diego.viola@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 21:54:25 GMT
Subject: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)
Message-ID: <CA+ToGPEZN7TBcYF3o5YgbayjZ8WKok-fjTPeq5nbt2vAG1wDDQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I was thinking about creating a new repository in my home dir so that I could
keep my dot files in it.

However, I found that I can't do a `git clone url:user/repo.git .` in a
non-empty directory.

Is there a possibility of implementing a -f switch to git-clone so that when I
use that, git would still clone the repo in the non-empty directory and keep the
untracked files untracked/unstaged? (just as if I copied files to the git repo).

I know I could git-init in a empty directory and then copy the .git dir to the
non-empty directory as a workaround, but I like the idea of cloning better.

My C skills aren't that great or I would have sent a patch already.

Thanks,

Diego