git clone from another directory

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.

None of these worked for me. I am using git-bash on windows. Found out the problem was with my file path formatting.

WRONG:

git clone F:\DEV\MY_REPO\.git

CORRECT:

git clone /F/DEV/MY_REPO/.git

These commands are done from the folder you want the repo folder to appear in.

It is worth mentioning that the command works similarly on Linux:

git clone path/to/source/folder path/to/destination/folder