From 696eb240f3a7753a79945d2d34ad49878b260a12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vadim Troshchinskiy <vtroshchinskiy@qindel.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 09:50:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix ticket #805: Remove .git directory if it already exists
 when checking out

---
 gitlib/gitlib.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gitlib/gitlib.py b/gitlib/gitlib.py
index e518a0e..ac878ce 100755
--- a/gitlib/gitlib.py
+++ b/gitlib/gitlib.py
@@ -1480,6 +1480,10 @@ class OpengnsysGitLibrary:
         repo_url = self._getOgRepository(repo_name)
         real_git_dir = os.path.join(self.cache_dir, f"git-{repo_name}")
 
+        if os.path.exists(real_git_dir):
+            self.logger.debug(f"Removing existing repository {real_git_dir}")
+            shutil.rmtree(real_git_dir)
+
         self.logger.debug(f"URL: {repo_url}")
 
         all_metadata = self._get_repo_metadata(repo_name)