git clone from another directory

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.