What is the best practice to clone a Git repository into an existing directory which already includes some other files and folders?
I have created 2 branches dev
and master
and locally working on dev
branch. So I want to clone master
branch in www
folder which is the root of a website. Then at regular times I want to merge dev
branch into master
.
Now the problem is that I can't delete www
director because it has essential contents. I also can't rename or move it.
Is there a way to fully clone the master
branch into the root ofwww
directory without renaming or deleting it's content?
Is there a way to fully clone the master branch into the root ofwww directory without renaming or deleting it's content?
Clone the repo elsewhere (in master
branch), then move the checked out files and the .git
folder to the existing www/
folder.
You might have to add the existing www/
files in your .gitignore
.