How to git clone with specifying the destination directory without its project name?

Question

I uses macOS and Ubuntu. I want to git clone a certain project https://github.com/Project/project.git to a specific directory $HOME/git. I saw this page: How do you clone a Git repository into a specific folder?, but it requires to explicitly specify its project name like: git clone https://github.com/Project/project.git $HOME/git/project. How can I git clone them without specifying its project name?

[Add1] If I git clone like: git clone https://github.com/Project/project.git $HOME/git then I encountered fatal: destination path '/home/paalon/git' already exists and is not an empty directory. [Add2] I want to clone git-managed projects under $HOME/git directory. I want to set the state ls $HOME/git shows like project1/ project2/ project3/.

Possible duplicate of [How do you clone a Git repository into a specific folder?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/651038/how-do-you-clone-a-git-repository-into-a-specific-folder) — jonrsharpe, Nov 16 '18 at 15:21

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 16 '18 at 15:38

7

How do you clone a Git repository into a specific folder?

The git clone command can be used in the following way:

 git clone <url> <destination>

fatal: destination path /home/paalon/git already exists and is not an empty directory.

This is due to the face that you already have folder with the given name /home/paalon/git.
Delete the "old folder" and clone again, this time add the desired path to your clone command

answered Nov 16 '18 at 15:38

CodeWizard

128,036
21
144
167

Sorry for my question is ambiguous. I want to clone git things under the `$HOME/git` directory. So I want to set like `ls $HOME/git` shows `project1/ project2/ project3/ `. – Paalon Nov 16 '18 at 15:49
`git clone $HOME/git/project1` where project1 is your desired name – CodeWizard Nov 16 '18 at 15:51
Yes. I know it but I want to do it without specifying the project name. – Paalon Nov 16 '18 at 16:00
if you dont specify the name it will get the default name under **the current** directory where you run `git clone` – CodeWizard Nov 16 '18 at 16:10
Yes, but I want to specify it from not the current directory. – Paalon Nov 16 '18 at 17:11
So you must specify a name. Why not using a script? – CodeWizard Nov 16 '18 at 17:13

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 16 '18 at 19:58

2

Split into 2 commands:

cd $HOME/git
git clone https://github.com/Project/project.git

That way you name the project only once.

answered Nov 16 '18 at 19:58

phd

82,685
13
120
165

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 18 '21 at 13:50

2

git -C $HOME/git clone https://github.com/someorg/Boostnote.git

will create $HOME/git/Boostnote

answered Oct 18 '21 at 13:50

ErgoZ

31
2

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Nov 16 '18 at 15:52

0

I don't think that's actually correct. You can clone providing any directory as your target. It doesn't have to match the project name:

$ git clone https://github.com/eantoranz/bwv blahblah
Cloning into 'blahblah'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 221, done.
remote: Total 221 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 221
Receiving objects: 100% (221/221), 62.45 KiB | 480.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (150/150), done.`1

edited Nov 16 '18 at 15:52

CodeWizard

128,036
21
144
167

answered Nov 16 '18 at 15:21

eftshift0

26,375
3
36
60

I get the following error: `$ git clone https://github.com/BoostIO/Boostnote.git $HOME/git` `fatal: destination path '/home/paalon/git' already exists and is not an empty directory.` – Paalon Nov 16 '18 at 15:24

How to git clone with specifying the destination directory without its project name?

4 Answers4