git clone from another directory

git, git-clone

Solution

cd /d c:\
git clone C:\folder1 folder2

From the documentation for `git clone`:

For local repositories, also supported by git natively, the following syntaxes may be used:

/path/to/repo.git/

file:///path/to/repo.git/

These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except the former implies --local option.

Problem

I am trying to clone repo from another directory. Lets say I have one repo in `C:/folder1` and `C:/folder2` I want to clone the work in `folder1` into `folder2`. What would I type into the command prompt to do this? It seems that often when cloning a URL is provided rather then a file path, however, at this moment I am just practicing and trying to get use to Git.

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