Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)

2015-03-08 Thread Diego Viola
, at 17:53, Diego Viola wrote: Something like this is the scenario I'm talking about: $ mkdir non-empty-dir $ cd non-empty-dir $ touch foo bar baz $ git clone -f url:user/dotfiles.git . $ git status On branch master Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. Untracked files: (use git

Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)

2015-03-07 Thread Diego Viola
Sorry, I wanted to say: I know I can git-clone in a empty directory and then move the files over to $HOME. I know I can git init in a non-empty directory. :-) Thanks, Diego On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Andreas Schwab sch...@linux-m68k.org wrote: Diego Viola diego.vi...@gmail.com writes

Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)

2015-03-07 Thread Diego Viola
Hello, I was thinking about creating a new repository in my home dir so that I could keep my dot files in it. However, I found that I can't do a `git clone url:user/repo.git .` in a non-empty directory. Is there a possibility of implementing a -f switch to git-clone so that when I use that, git

Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)

2015-03-07 Thread Diego Viola
will be committed) bar baz foo nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use git add to track) On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Diego Viola diego.vi...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I wanted to say: I know I can git-clone in a empty directory and then move the files over to $HOME