How to properly set up cloning in SmartGit?

Question

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Initial data: Ubuntu 14.04, SmartGit v7, simple application (*.php) in /var/www/myblog/ I configure
that the application is in /var/www/myblog/ and in a remote repository on github.
I try:
1. Create a remote repository on github
2. SmartGit -> Repository -> Clone
3. Specify the link to the repository and the folder where the repository will be located, respectively, /var/www/myblog/
4. We get this folder /var/www /myblog/myblog.git (and /var/www/myblog/myblog.git/.git ), naturally SmartGit does not see my files in /var/www/myblog/
5. For experiment, repeat steps 1-3, only specify another folder like ~/documents/myblog. SmartGit immediately creates a hidden .git directory and works as it should.
Why is an intermediate directory myblog.git created in the first case, and how can I get around this?

Answer 1

cloning cannot be done to a folder with files, only to an empty one.
move the files to another location, clone the repo and check in the files.

Answer 2

Solved, the problem was in an empty and not empty directory.
It was necessary to remove all files from the /var/www/myblog/ directory, perform the Clone operation, and then return the application files back. SmartGit immediately saw all the files after copying them to the old location.