Unlike Subversion, git has no cp
command. For files, this is not a problem: if I want to copy a file a
to b
, I can just do:
cp -a a b
git add b
However, say I want to copy a directory d
to give it another name e
. I can still do the same thing. However, d
may contain files that are not tracked by git, e.g., compiled binaries, etc. In this context, I do not want to do the above, because I do not want git to track these additional files.
With Subversion, I can do svn cp
, and it will only copy and add the files that are tracked by Subversion. How can I do this with git?
Best Answer
You can use git clone:
Then remove the .git file