Re: Can we get a git clone flag to override the "required empty directory" behaviour?

2015-07-24 Thread Junio C Hamano
Mike Kasprzak writes: > What I would like to do is git clone inside that directory. Alas, git > will not let you clone in any directory containing a file. In the ideal world, I think both of these two commands: $ git clone $URL somewhere $ cd somewhere && git clone $URL . should behave

Can we get a git clone flag to override the "required empty directory" behaviour?

2015-07-24 Thread Mike Kasprzak
Hi, I run a project with 2 repositories. One is a vagrant based toolchain (a VM that runs a LAMP server), and the other is the source code. Because I want my users to keep and make their changes to a clone of the source repository, we can't use submodules. They make their changes, test locally, an