Is there a way to clone a repo without creating the containing directory?

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Published on 2010-04-19T14:07:04Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 14:23 UTC
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I have this file structure:

folderIWantStuffIn/
  - old_stuff

Now I want to add some new stuff that is in a git repo. I'd like to be able to use git clone and git pull right in the directory and get this:

folderIWantStuffIn/
  - old_stuff
  - new_stuff

When I use git clone, I get this:

folderIWantStuffIn/
  - old_stuff
  - NewStuffFolder/
      - new_stuff

Are there flags I can pass into git clone to get this behavior?

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