Gatsby: [gatsby-cli] Don't create .git if project is created into existing git repo

[slorber]

I'm on an existing git repo and run gatsby new mysite.
Generating a nested .git folder for the gatsby site was confusing me as I couldn't add the newly generated site to git which though it was a git submodule or something...

Follow-up of conversation with @KyleAMathews here https://twitter.com/kylemathews/status/1110276125345775616

[mayaarguelles]

can i work on this?

[DSchau]

@mayaarguelles that'd be great, thanks!

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[KyleAMathews]

@mayaarguelles curious if you've had any time to work on this?

[vnugent]

google took me to this issue. How do I tell gatsby cli to create a project inside an existing git dir without creating a subdirectory? Similar to create-react-app .

My steps:

1. Create a project in github/gitlab
2. Clone to local machine
3. If I run gatsby new my-site inside the new project, my-site is created as a subdir. If I run it outside I'd get the error below

gatsby new ./leanstack-landing
info Creating new site from git:
fatal: destination path './leanstack-landing' already exists and is not an empty directory.

 ERROR

Command failed with exit code 128: git clone https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-default.git ./leanstack-landing --depth=1

gatsby -v
Gatsby CLI version: 2.10.13
Gatsby version: 2.19.45

[dropcase]

I just went through this and ended up here from a Google search. I'm not sure if this is a good way to go but here's what I did:

1. Create a project in GitHub
2. Clone to local machine
3. Run gatsby new gatsby-projectname in a separate directory (could probably go anywhere)
4. Copy everything except the .git and node_modules directories into projectname
5. Run npm install from the projectname directory to get all packages installed
6. Copy node_modules/@babel into the projectname directory (to resolve a Cannot find module '@babel/preset-env' error which could've been self-inflicted)

I think that sets everything up, but please let me know if there's anything that I should check to make sure. From what I could tell it's working, and I was able to run a gatsby develop to test and gatsby build ran without any errors.

gatsby -v
Gatsby CLI version: 2.11.14
Gatsby version: 2.20.25