# git clone command

2 messages from 2012-06-13 to 2012-06-20. Participants: Paa Kojo Konduah Amos, Neal Kreitzinger.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/30789

## Paa Kojo Konduah Amos, 2012-06-13 05:09

Subject: git clone command
Message-ID: <4FD82090.8010509@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4FD82090.8010509%40gmail.com

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hello, i have been working with git for some time now... and i have just 
been hit with a serious problem in the middle of a major deployment of 
our project.

Problem: when i do a "git clone" on the server url without specifying 
the actual git repository..the command still pulls files of a previous 
clone rather than warning me the repository does not exist.

PLEASE what might be wrong...is there something like clean some 
cache.... i am really hot now!!!

Thanks.

```

## Neal Kreitzinger, 2012-06-20 20:49

Subject: Re: git clone command
Message-ID: <4FE2375D.5010409@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4FE2375D.5010409%40gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <4FD82090.8010509@gmail.com>

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On 6/13/2012 12:09 AM, Paa Kojo Konduah Amos wrote:
> hello, i have been working with git for some time now... and i have just
> been hit with a serious problem in the middle of a major deployment of
> our project.
>
> Problem: when i do a "git clone" on the server url without specifying
> the actual git repository..the command still pulls files of a previous
> clone rather than warning me the repository does not exist.
>
> PLEASE what might be wrong...is there something like clean some
> cache.... i am really hot now!!!
>

git-clone manpage states:

<directory>
The name of a new directory to clone into. The "humanish" 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 only allowed if the directory is empty.

I assume you're ending up with a new dir/worktree named after the 
humanish part of the repo-name in your url?  mystery solved?

v/r,
neal

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