How do I set up git clone one of my repositories

Question

I have an Emacs Configuration in a repository and whenever I do git clone <repository> it creates for me a folder with the name of the repository and the configuration files inside

I would like it to only create "clone" the settings files instead of creating a folder with the files inside

Answer 1

I think there are 3 options:

1. Download the files without cloning the repository
2. Clone contents of a GitHub repository (without the folder itself):
   • git clone url . - works only if the current directory is empty
   • git init trick - (see the link)
3. Configure Emacs to load the config file from a different location:
   • Based on Is there a way to change the init.el location on startup?:

   replace your ~/.emacs.d/init.el with this:

   (setq user-emacs-directory "/path/to/git_repo/")
   (load "/path/to/git_repo/init.el")
   

   • https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/12881/how-do-i-set-a-different-location-for-the-dot-emacs-emacs-file-on-windows-7