On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 12:04:11PM -0400, Jack Adrian Zappa wrote: > Hi, I was trying to clone a repo into a non-existent directory. but it > gave me a failure: > > $ git clone https://github.com/jelera/vim-javascript-syntax.git > ~/.vim/bundle/vim-javascript-syntax > fatal: destination path > '/home/username/.vim/bundle/vim-javascript-syntax' already exists and > is not an empty directory. That exact command works just fine for me. Are you absolutely sure that the directory did not exist? Which version of Git are you using? > > The name of a new directory to clone into. The "humanish" 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 only allowed if the directory is > > empty. > > Which to me, implies that the directory doesn't have to exist prior to > cloning. So is this a bug or a misunderstanding? Correct, in general it should _not_ exist. -Peff
