Restore configuration from GIT

Configuration
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Hi,

I’ve been struggling with finding the best way to restore my configuration from GIT.
I’ve looked at a similar post (Restore previous config from Github), but this seem to not deal with a few apparent issues.

The gist of the post is to use git clone to clone into the repository, but GIT does not allow cloning into non-empty directories, so I did an rm -Rf to clear the contents of the home assistant config folder (I put my hope in HA restoring all the files that were necessary and not cloned - such as the HA database) and then cloned the contents of the repo. Unfortunately, aiohttp started to spew errors after I booted the Home Assistant service after that and I was unable to boot HA.

Can any git experts tell me the best way to restore my configuration?
Hopefully we can work out a way to do this, so that we can add it to the documentation (Back-up to Github).

Thanks!

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you only store the /config folder on GIT, leave to HA folder alone

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Hi HypnoToad, thanks for the reply.

Edited my original post to remove ambiguity. Obviously I meant I removed the HA config folder. Nonetheless, this does contain some files that are not in source control, such as the .storage folder and the HA SQLite database.

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the .storage folder and the HA SQLite database

try adding these to the .gitignore file, that they these should not be touched my version control.

I must admit I don’t really know the git commands that well, I use Sourcetree usually.