I am trying to clone repo from another directory.
Lets say I have one repo in C:/folder1 and C:/folder2
I want to clone the work in folder1 into folder2.
What would I type into the command prompt to do this?
It seems that often when cloning a URL is provided rather then a file path, however, at this moment I am just practicing and trying to get use to Git.
cd /d c:\
git clone C:\folder1 folder2
From the documentation for git clone:
For local repositories, also supported by git natively, the following syntaxes may be used:
/path/to/repo.git/ file:///path/to/repo.git/These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except the former implies --local option.
git clone //pc_name/git
git clone ../some/path. And / or, you can manage your remotes. Cloning like this should automatically configure an origin remote for future use, e.g. fetching or pushing commits.It is worth mentioning that the command works similarly on Linux:
git clone path/to/source/folder path/to/destination/folder
git clone path/to/source/folderNone of these worked for me. I am using git-bash on windows. Found out the problem was with my file path formatting.
WRONG:
git clone F:\DEV\MY_REPO\.git
CORRECT:
git clone /F/DEV/MY_REPO/.git
These commands are done from the folder you want the repo folder to appear in.
/ or double slash `\\`. But no single slash.It's as easy as it looks.
14:27:05 ~$ mkdir gittests
14:27:11 ~$ cd gittests/
14:27:13 ~/gittests$ mkdir localrepo
14:27:20 ~/gittests$ cd localrepo/
14:27:21 ~/gittests/localrepo$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/andwed/gittests/localrepo/.git/
14:27:22 ~/gittests/localrepo (master #)$ cd ..
14:27:35 ~/gittests$ git clone localrepo copyoflocalrepo
Cloning into 'copyoflocalrepo'...
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
done.
14:27:42 ~/gittests$ cd copyoflocalrepo/
14:27:46 ~/gittests/copyoflocalrepo (master #)$ git status
On branch master
Initial commit
nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)
14:27:46 ~/gittests/copyoflocalrepo (master #)$
Using the path itself didn't work for me.
Here's what finally worked for me on MacOS:
cd ~/projects
git clone file:///Users/me/projects/myawesomerepo myawesomerepocopy
This also worked:
git clone file://localhost/Users/me/projects/myawesomerepo myawesomerepocopy
The path itself worked if I did this:
git clone --local myawesomerepo myawesomerepocopy
--local. I do prefer to create the destination folder first, go into it and use . as destination.In case you have space in your path, wrap it in double quotes:
$ git clone "//serverName/New Folder/Target" f1/
Use git clone c:/folder1 c:/folder2
git clone [--template=<template_directory>] [-l] [-s] [--no-hardlinks]
[-q] [-n] [--bare] [--mirror] [-o <name>] [-b <name>] [-u <upload-pack>]
[--reference <repository>] [--separate-git-dir <git dir>] [--depth <depth>]
[--[no-]single-branch] [--recursive|--recurse-submodules] [--]<repository>
[<directory>]
<repository>
The (possibly remote) repository to clone from.
See the URLS section below for more information on specifying repositories.
<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 am using git-bash in windows.
The simplest solution is to just replace \ in the source folder path with forward slashes(/):
Example: c:\dev\source will become c:/dev/source
Start the git-bash on the destination folder.
Run the git clone using the forward slashed source folder path:
git clone c:/dev/source
git clone C:\folder1\.git folder2. You need to run it from the directory where you want folder2 to appear