Github clone in project should work from parent directory

[sHtev]

This may be opinion rather than a bug (hence not submitted as a bug report), but when I was creating a new project by cloning from a GitHub repo, the UI wanted the clone directory to already exist (or at least that's how I interpreted the error message).

I would expect this to work like CLI git clone works, and to create the directory the repo files (and presumably the project files - this is my first project) live in as part of the clone operation. I.e., if I want a project cloned from sHtev/myrepo to live under ~/Code, I should be able to select that directory in the Clone window and my project to clone into ~/Code/myrepo. If this is the intent, then maybe this is a bug (Intel Mac user here).

[sHtev]

I retried this and created an empty project directory to clone into and got a gh error message:
Source control repository operation cloneRepository failed for unknown: Destination path already exists and is not empty.

It seems like a) there should be a better user-facing message for the underlying command failing and b), the actual path selected is not being passed to gh(?) under-the-hood. If I find time I may file a proper bug report instead.

[juliusmarminge]

you're supposed to put in the full path:

CleanShot.2026-05-29.at.16.14.56.mp4

open to adding support for cloning with inferred dir as another alternative