git clone into home directory

Question

$ git clone ssh://host/repo.git ~/
destination directory '/home/username/' already exists.

Can anyone tell me how to make this work? I'm trying to quickly be able to replicate common dev scripts and config.

Answer 1

This seems to work:

cd ~
git init
git remote add origin ssh://host/repo.git
git pull origin master

Answer 2

The clone command creates a new directory when you pass a second argument:

$ git clone ssh://host/repo.git ~/your_directory

clone will create ~/your_directory. If the directory already exists it will give you the error you get.

Answer 3

cd ~
git clone ssh://host/repo.git

After that, you have the project in the /home/username/repo/ directory

If you want to have the project in a different folder name (e.g 'foo/')

mkdir ~/foo
cd ~/foo
git clone ssh://host/repo.git foo/

Answer 4

I would clone the repository into a subdirectory:

git clone ssh://your/git/repo.git ~/repo

And create symlinks to the configuration files:

ln -s ~/repo/.bashrc ~/.bashrc