am I allowed to move .git folder and .gitignore file into the actual project directory?

Question

I am not so into GIT and I have the following doubt: I created an empty repository on BitBucket then I cloned it on my filesystem of my Linux Ubuntu machine. So a directory with the same name of my BitBucket repository was created on my file system. This directory contains the .git hiddend folder and the .gitignore hidden file that handle my repository

Then I accessed to this directory via shell and I created an Angular project by:

sudo ng new gestionale-medico-portal --style=scss

that creates the gestionale-medico-portal subfolder representing my actual project that I have to put into the GIT repository.

My question is: can I simply move my .git folder and my .gitignore file into this subfolder or it can create problem?

Answer 1

Yes you can move those folders. Git determines if it's a git project or not based on if there is a .git folder on this level or higher levels.