git clone without project folder

Question:

I have given access to server, and want to clone git repo into my root folder. But when I do git clone it will make me folder with project name, and my project folder is my root. I dont have access to my parent folder
my root is

and when I do cloning folder structure will be

Answer:

git clone accepts a last argument that is the destination directory, it is by default the name of the project but you can change it. In your case you probably want simply .:

But note that, from man git-clone:

Cloning into an existing directory is only allowed if the directory is empty.

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