# [PATCH] Documentation: cloning to empty directory is allowed 1 messages from 2009-05-07 to 2009-05-07. Participants: Alexander Potashev. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/19227 ## Alexander Potashev, 2009-05-07 12:04 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: cloning to empty directory is allowed Message-ID: <1241697848-9263-1-git-send-email-aspotashev@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1241697848-9263-1-git-send-email-aspotashev%40gmail.com ``` Cloning into an existing empty directory is now allowed: commit 55892d23981917aefdb387ad7d0429f90cbd446a ("Allow cloning to an existing empty directory") Signed-off-by: Alexander Potashev --- Documentation/git-clone.txt | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index 4072f40..b14de6c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ then the cloned repository will become corrupt. part of the source repository is used if no directory is explicitly given ("repo" for "/path/to/repo.git" and "foo" for "host.xz:foo/.git"). Cloning into an existing directory - is not allowed. + is only allowed if the directory is empty. :git-clone: 1 include::urls.txt[] -- 1.6.2.3 ```