Gergely, Thanks. I actually have 2 directories from failed attempts last week. One of them was empty and rmdir newProject2 worked - hurray - to remove that empty directory.
The other directory, newProject1, has 2 sub-directories that ls says have files in them. Git thinks they are not empty, though Windows7 shows no sign of them, even with it set to show hidden directories. I tried rm -rf newProject1 on that directory, and nothing happens - no feedback, no changes when I look at ls -la On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Nelson Efrain A. Cruz <nea...@gmail.com>wrote: > If you can't find a solution maybe you can try in [1], the problem seems > to be specific to Windows and also you need to learn basics commands to > play around in a terminal, think that when you are in git shell you are in > a emulated *nix terminal > > [1] = https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/msysgit > El mar 26, 2014 3:51 AM, "Gergely Polonkai" <gerg...@polonkai.eu> > escribió: > > Try removing the directory with "rmdir newDirectory" (without git). If >> that fails, newDirectory is obviously not empty. In that case you should >> check the contents of the dir with "ls -la newDirectory", and/or remove it >> with "rm -rf newDirectory". >> >> Cheers, >> Gergely >> >> >> On 26 March 2014 02:00, Michael Laird <michael.w.la...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I don't have the problem solved, but here is more information, and maybe >>> a more targeted question. >>> >>> I tried to remove the "thing" Git calls newProject with the command rm >>> -f newProject >>> I get rm: 'newProject' is a directory >>> >>> I read that directories can be removed with this command git rm -r >>> --cached newProject >>> I get fatal: Not a repository (or any of the parent directories): .git >>> >>> So maybe newProject is an empty directory. As I posted above, it has 0 >>> in its description. Maybe that is 0 bytes. >>> >>> I read elsewhere that empty directories cannot be removed. There is no >>> such command in git. >>> >>> If that is true, how do I make newProject a "non-empty" directory, and >>> then remove it - the whole thing? >>> >>> On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 4:32:15 PM UTC-4, Michael Laird wrote: >>>> >>>> In Nelson's first response, he suggested doing some ls commands, and I >>>> just remembered that. >>>> When pointing to the htdocs directory, and I do ls -la >>>> I get - several responses listing directories and files, plus I get 2 >>>> "things" refering to my first attempts last week. They seem to be >>>> directories as Git sees them (drwxr-xr-x appears for other directories that >>>> I can see in Windows Explorer), but they are not visible in Windows >>>> Explorer, even with hidden files made visible. They look like: >>>> drwxr-xr-x 4 UserName Administ 0 Mar 17 newProject >>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 UserName Administ 0 Mar 18 newProject1 >>>> >>>> When I do ls -la newProject >>>> I get similar things in the 'imaginary' newProject directory, looking >>>> like: >>>> drwxr-xr-x 13 UserName Administ 0 Mar 17 newProject >>>> drwxr-xr-x 1 UserName Administ 0 Mar 18 angular-seed >>>> >>>> So this explains why I get the error message - fatal: destination path >>>> 'newProject' already exists . . . >>>> >>>> What are these "things" that only git is seeing? How do I get rid of >>>> them? I just did a new install. >>>> >>>> On Monday, March 24, 2014 2:17:35 PM UTC-4, Michael Laird wrote: >>>>> >>>>> 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 newProject >>>>> >>>>> I 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?<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/651038/how-do-you-clone-a-git-repository-into-a-specific-folder>as >>>>> follows >>>>> >>>>> git clone git://github.com/angular/angular-seed:newProject htdocs >>>>> >>>>> I 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. 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