I swear I'm going to figure out how to work with git at some point and stop bothering everyone with these stupid beginner problems!
So here's my current problem. I'm trying to "checkout" (not sure if that's the right term or not) files from my repository into an existing folder (a folder created as a NetBeans project...something NetBeans recognizes as a project folder). Clone doesn't work...tells me there is existing content. When I deleted all the content and cloned it again, it put all the contents into a sub-folder. So I tried using fetch. When I fetched, it took a very long time and looked like it was doing work (it was showing me some kind of progress), but when it got all done the folder was empty. I tried this a couple of times and then tried pull, which did the same thing. At one point after a fetch I typed "git status" and got a long message saying all my files were deleted. Finally after searching around for clues decided to clone into a separate directory then copy and paste all the contents of that directory back over to my project directory. I guess my question is, how do I get my files out of the repository and into an existing folder on my computer? And why doesn't fetch or pull actually fetch or pull any files down from the repository? Thanks, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/git-users/-/-JtXABcSozYJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
