Documentation: cloning to empty directory is allowed
authorAlexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com>
Thu, 7 May 2009 12:04:08 +0000 (16:04 +0400)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sat, 9 May 2009 08:28:08 +0000 (01:28 -0700)
Cloning into an existing empty directory is now allowed:
commit 55892d23981917aefdb387ad7d0429f90cbd446a
("Allow cloning to an existing empty directory")

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/git-clone.txt

index 4072f40d7ae5417c51d1cddcf587b674aa1dc0e5..b14de6c407b8bd0bc001c608ca4f26fc619abf3e 100644 (file)
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ then the cloned repository will become corrupt.
        part of the source repository is used if no directory is
        explicitly given ("repo" for "/path/to/repo.git" and "foo"
        for "host.xz:foo/.git").  Cloning into an existing directory
-       is not allowed.
+       is only allowed if the directory is empty.
 
 :git-clone: 1
 include::urls.txt[]