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

Just use the . at the end of the git clone command (being in that directory), like this:

cd your_dir_to_clone_in/
git clone git@github.com/somerepo/ .