Re: Cloning into an existing directory

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Andrew Ruder [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Brent Goodrick [off-list ref] wrote:

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1. Move aside each file it complains about
2. Run the git-checkout command again
3. Move each file back to their original names, thus creating a local
edit w.r.t. git

Actually, on my git (1.6.0.4) this just magically works due to the
fact that 'git init' sets up the repository with HEAD pointing to
refs/heads/master (which doesn't exist yet) and you go ahead and
create the master branch with the 'git branch' command.

In other words, in this particular situation the 'git checkout'
command is completely unnecessary and if you just run a 'git status'
you should already see that git sees all the differences already as
local edits (assuming you didn't call you branch in the 'git branch'
step something other than master).

Well, it does show them as local edits, and actually shows the file as
deleted. I ended up having to do a git-add on those files and commit
them, which will work for me.

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