----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Laird
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [git-users] git clone a directory into a new local directory
with a new name
Nelson,
I am back to all the weirdness I had before.
I uninstalled Git, downloaded a new copy, and installed it. I did not create
a new directory under C:\ Program Files\...\apache2\htdocs. I pointed Git Bash
at the apache2/htdocs directory and entered the command
git clone git://github.com/angular/angular-seed.git newProject
I got the message - fatal: destination path 'OPost' already exists and is not
empty.
Windows Explorer shows no such directory under apache2/htdocs htdocs is set
to show hidden files, and none show up.
I did a git status on apache2/htdocs
I got the message - fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent
directories): .git
While pointed to apache2/htdocs, I entered cd newProject
Git Bash came back with C:/Program Files/.../apache2/htdocs/newProject
though the newProject directory does not exist in Windows Explorer, and I
have not typed newProject into this installation of Git until this cd command.
I did git status at the htdocs/newProject pointer,
I get the message - fatal: not a git repository, etc, like the above git
status in htdocs
What is messed up? What should I do ?
On Monday, March 24, 2014 7:39:49 PM UTC-4, Nelson Efrain A. Cruz wrote:
You're welcome.
Well you don't need to create any folder, the command will create it, if
the folder already exists and it's not empty, the command will fail (the
repository will not be created) but if it's empty there are no trouble.
With "git clone" you always create a new folder that contains the repo, in
your case if you are in htdocs the repository will be in newProject, so to run
git status you need to be inside newProject.
2014-03-24 16:52 GMT-03:00 Michael Laird <[email protected]>:
Nelson,
Thank you, this is helpful to understand some things.
Do I make the newProject directory under htdocs before the git clone
command, or does the git clone command with the newProject at the end make the
directory?
When I make the git clone command with newProject, as posted, which
directory should I have Git Bash pointing to - htdocs or newProject (under
htdocs)?
On Monday, March 24, 2014 3:07:58 PM UTC-4, Nelson Efrain A. Cruz wrote:
the command
git clone git://github.com/angular/angular-seed.git newProject
its correct, i can only assume that you are having problems with
positioning in the folders so maybe thats is the problem. Anyway, i think you
are using git bash, so you can try to run "ls -la" in the htdocs directory to
se what the git bash is seeing, also in the same folder you can try "ls -la
newProject/" to see if there is somethin inside.
Maybe you can give a try to the Git GUI or SourceTree (another GUI)
from atlassian, but it's better to learn git from the command line first, so
it's up to you.
And also you can clone the repository in any folder and then you can
move the folder to anywhere, lets say in your htdocs folder. In the prompt of
git bash the default folder is c:\Users\your_user\
2014-03-24 15:17 GMT-03:00 Michael Laird <[email protected]>:
I want to clone a directory of files to start my first AngularJS
project and put those files in Apache's htdocs directory with the name of my
project, e.g., newProject. I've used the ProGit book, a bunch of tutorials, and
Stackoverflow, and after many hours, still don't have it.
From all my first attempt messing around, I may have 'polluted' my
git. With no newProject directory in the htdocs directory (ie, after deleting
prior copies), I point git at htdocs and get a command prompt ending in htdocs.
There, I can do a cd newProjects and get a new command prompt ending in
htdocs/newProject, even though the directory does not exist. A git status
returns fatal:not a git repo (or any of parent directories): .git I have tried
rm -rf .git at that prompt and get no git response, just another same commmand
prompt. What's going on? I have recently deleted git, and re-installed a new
download, so maybe this is no longer an issue.
When I add a newProject directory to htdocs and do what ProGit says
git clone git://github.com/angular/angular-seed.git newProjectI get
fatal:destination path newProject exists and is not empty, even though Windows
Explorer says it is an empty directory, and a git status at that prompt says
fatal:not a repo (. . .) .git
When I try the commands at How do you clone a git repository into a
specific folder? as follows
git clone git://github.com/angular/angular-seed:newProject htdocsI get
fatal:destination path newProject exists and is not empty A git status at that
prompt returns fatal: not a repository
I have also tried the above command without the htdocs, and get the
same result.
Now that I have re-installed a new download of git, I need to do a
correct command to clone the angular-seed directory of files and get it renamed
newProject in a directory several levels down in Windows7, called
apache2/htdos. What do I do?
--
Given you are on Windows 7, do you have any UAC (user access controls) set,
such that some programes can see the directories and others can't?
I've had a similar problem at my work (large enterprise with big security)
where the application writes files, but I can't see them.
Philip
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