I have a working copy of the project, without any source control meta data. Now, I’d like to do the equivalent of git-clone into this folder, and keep my local changes.
git-clone doesn’t allow me to clone into an existing folder. What is the best practice here?
This can be done by cloning to a new directory, then moving the .git directory into your existing directory.
If your existing directory is named “code”.
git clone https://myrepo.com/git.git temp
mv temp/.git code/.git
rm -rf temp
This can also be done without doing a checkout during the clone command; more information can be found here.