What's the best practice to “git clone” into an existing folder?

Question

I have a working copy of the project, without any source control meta data. Now, I\'d like to do the equivalent of git-clone into this folder, and keep my local changes.

Answer 1

The following i did, to checkout master branch in an existing directory:

git init
git remote add origin [my-repo]
git fetch
git checkout origin/master -ft