How do I clone into a non-empty directory?

Question

I have directory A with files matching directory B. Directory A may have other needed files. Directory B is a git repo.

I want to clone directory B to directory A bu

Answer 1

Here's what I ended up doing when I had the same problem (at least I think it's the same problem). I went into directory A and ran git init.

Since I didn't want the files in directory A to be followed by git, I edited .gitignore and added the existing files to it. After this I ran git remote add origin '' && git pull origin master et voíla, B is "cloned" into A without a single hiccup.