Allow cloning to an existing empty directory

The die() message updated accordingly.

The previous behaviour was to only allow cloning when the destination
directory doesn't exist.

[jc: added trivial tests]

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/builtin-clone.c b/builtin-clone.c
index f1a1a0c365..f7e5a7b0a0 100644
--- a/builtin-clone.c
+++ b/builtin-clone.c
@@ -357,6 +357,7 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	struct stat buf;
 	const char *repo_name, *repo, *work_tree, *git_dir;
 	char *path, *dir;
+	int dest_exists;
 	const struct ref *refs, *head_points_at, *remote_head, *mapped_refs;
 	struct strbuf key = STRBUF_INIT, value = STRBUF_INIT;
 	struct strbuf branch_top = STRBUF_INIT, reflog_msg = STRBUF_INIT;
@@ -406,8 +407,10 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		dir = guess_dir_name(repo_name, is_bundle, option_bare);
 	strip_trailing_slashes(dir);
 
-	if (!stat(dir, &buf))
-		die("destination directory '%s' already exists.", dir);
+	dest_exists = !stat(dir, &buf);
+	if (dest_exists && !is_empty_dir(dir))
+		die("destination path '%s' already exists and is not "
+			"an empty directory.", dir);
 
 	strbuf_addf(&reflog_msg, "clone: from %s", repo);
 
@@ -431,7 +434,7 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		if (safe_create_leading_directories_const(work_tree) < 0)
 			die("could not create leading directories of '%s': %s",
 					work_tree, strerror(errno));
-		if (mkdir(work_tree, 0755))
+		if (!dest_exists && mkdir(work_tree, 0755))
 			die("could not create work tree dir '%s': %s.",
 					work_tree, strerror(errno));
 		set_git_work_tree(work_tree);