Cloning to current directory?

[thebigbone]

Hello, I wanted to clone a repository to the current directory and therefore I used ".".

_, err := git.PlainClone(".", false, &git.CloneOptions{
	  URL:      r.URL,
	  Progress: os.Stdout,
})

But that doesn't seem to working. I get the following error:

git clone https://github.com/thebigbone/load-balancer{"time":"2024-04-29T21:55:09.53592634+05:30","level":"FATAL","prefix":"-","file":"cmd.go","line":"44","message":"repository already exists"}
exit status 1

What's the current way to clone to current directory?

[thebigbone]

It seems like using ./directory-name works which is slightly different.

Edit: Accidentally closed the issue.

[onee-only]

Could you check if you have already initialized git repository in the current directory?

[thebigbone]

Could you check if you have already initialized git repository in the current directory?

Is that necessary for cloning a repository?

[onee-only]

If you clone a repository via PlainClone, go-git will use .git directory for git repository.
And if you already have initialized a git repository there, it will produce an error since repositories cannot coexist in the same directory.

[thebigbone]

Oh, I see. Is there any way for cloning without initializing .git directory?

[onee-only]

You can store repository in memory.
Please refer to the code snippet below.

package main

import (
	"github.com/go-git/go-billy/v5/memfs"
	"github.com/go-git/go-git/v5"
	"github.com/go-git/go-git/v5/storage/memory"
)

func main() {
	fs := memfs.New()
	s := memory.NewStorage()
	r, err := git.Clone(s, fs, &git.CloneOptions{
		URL: "your git repository",
	})
}

You might want to avoid using memory storage if you are cloning large repository or etc.

[thebigbone]

You can store repository in memory. Please refer to the code snippet below.

package main

import (
	"github.com/go-git/go-billy/v5/memfs"
	"github.com/go-git/go-git/v5"
	"github.com/go-git/go-git/v5/storage/memory"
)

func main() {
	fs := memfs.New()
	s := memory.NewStorage()
	r, err := git.Clone(s, fs, &git.CloneOptions{
		URL: "your git repository",
	})
}

You might want to avoid using memory storage if you are cloning large repository or etc.

That looks helpful, thanks. But I would like to stick to the PlainClone because storing it in memory is not possible due to memory constraints. I can work on a PR for this if you want to consider it as an option.

[onee-only]

That looks helpful, thanks. But I would like to stick to the PlainClone because storing it in memory is not possible due to memory constraints. I can work on a PR for this if you want to consider it as an option

I'm not sure if this project is planning on supporting this kind of use case.
Are there any other options @pjbgf ?