How to delete or change directory of a cloned git repository on a local computer

Question

Used git clone [url] to clone an open source project but it cloned to the

C:\\Documents and Setings\\$USER\\project

What I wanted to do is clone the project to C:\\project . I don't want to have duplicate project clones on my local machine.

How do I go about moving it to that location or deleting the existing repository(hopefully that's a correct term) and cloning it again?

I assume after deleting I should use something like the following to clone it to the desired location?

$ git clone [url] C:\\project

Answer 1

Just move it :)

command line :

move "C:\Documents and Setings\$USER\project" C:\project

or just drag the folder in explorer.

Git won't care where it is - all the metadata for the repository is inside a folder called .git inside your project folder.

Answer 2

您可以删除您将repo克隆到的目录，并在任何您想要的地方重新克隆它。

Answer 3

你可以通过SSH尝试这个： rm -rf foldernamehere

Answer 4

I'm assuming you're using Windows, and GitBASH.

You can just delete the folder "C:...\\project" with no adverse effects.

Then in git bash, you can do cd c\\: . This changes the directory you're working in to C:\\

Then you can do git clone [url] This will create a folder called "project" on C:\\ with the contents of the repo.

If you'd like to name it something else, you can do git clone [url] [something else]

For example
cd c\\:
git clone git@github.com:username\\repo.git MyRepo

This would create a folder at "C:\\MyRepo" with the contents of the remote repository.

Answer 5

1. Go to working directory where you project folder (cloned folder) is placed.
2. Now delete the folder.
3. in windows just right click and do delete.
4. in command line use rm -r "folder name"
5. this worked for me