Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)

From: Diego Viola <diego.viola@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 8, 2015, 01:53 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+ToGPFSbOjfd5gJg+r-7WkwMB=m=4sOupaZo1WUn+O0bxAAXw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+ToGPHOM9mu_ng4wVc7QUGyvf09y=nDjE32oSh9JzKbpbzN2Q@mail.gmail.com>

Something like this is the scenario I'm talking about:

$ mkdir non-empty-dir
$ cd non-empty-dir
$ touch foo bar baz
$ git clone -f url:user/dotfiles.git .
$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

    bar
    baz
    foo

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Diego Viola <diego.viola@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Sorry, I wanted to say: I know I can git-clone in a empty directory
> and then move the files over to $HOME.
>
> I know I can git init in a non-empty directory. :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Diego
>
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> Diego Viola <diego.viola@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I know I could git-init in a empty directory
>>
>> You can also git init a non-empty directory.
>>
>> Andreas.
>>
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