Clone contents of a GitHub repository (without the folder itself)

Question

I\'d like to git clone the contents of a repository I have on GitHub. When I git clone (git@github:me/name.git...) I get a folder called name

Answer 1

Unfortunately, this doesn't work if there are other, non-related directories already in the same dir. Looking for a solution. The error message is: "fatal: destination path '.' already exists...".

The solution in this case is:

git init
git remote add origin git@github.com:me/name.git
git pull origin master

This recipe works even if there are other directories in the one you want to checkout in.