How to initialize git without the global directory? - laravel

Question

I want to put my LARAVEL project from the git repository to my server, to do this I:
git init
sudo git clone git#gitlab.com:test-name/my-project.git
Now I have the following content:
drwxr-sr-x 4 ubuntu www-data 37 Mar 26 08:53 ./
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 101 Sep 5 2019 ../
drwxr-sr-x 7 root www-data 119 Mar 26 08:53 .git/
drwxr-sr-x 12 root www-data 4096 Mar 26 08:53 my-project/
and now when I list my-project I also see .git\ directory !
But in fact I want the content of my-project directly, not inside my-project directory.
What should I do ?

Answer 1

Don't bother with the git init at all: git clone means:
Make a directory, and enter that directory, so that all of the remaining five steps occur in that directory.
Run git init.
Run git remote add origin url, where the url comes from the git clone argument. You can change this name from origin to some other name, but you didn't.
Run any necessary git config operations (you didn't list any extra configurations to apply so this step doesn't do anything in your case).
Run git fetch origin.
Run git checkout name, where the name comes from the -b argument you gave to git clone. You didn't give one, so instead, name comes from the recommendation that the other Git over at origin gives. Most other Gits recommend master.
Note that step 2 does its own git init, so that's why you should not be doing one yourself. (If you like, you can run all six steps yourself, one at a time. Note that if you do that, you'll wind up in the directory you made. When git clone makes the directory and enters it, that doesn't move you, so this is slightly different.)
(In general, you should not be running any Git command with sudo. You might have some particular reason for doing that, but in general you should find some way to avoid doing that.)