Cloning a repository from GitHub

Syntax#

• git clone github.com/username/repository

Clone a repository

1. Go to the repository you want to clone (something like: https://github.com/*username*/*repo*)

2. On the right, click on the green button named clone or download

3. A small window will appear, copy the url (something like: https://github.com/*username*/*repo*.git)

4. Open a terminal window on the machine you want to clone that project to

5. Navigate from the command line to the location you want to clone the project to

6. Enter the command: git clone <copied_url_from_step_3>

7. Press Enter

8. Something like the following will appear:

   Cloning into <repo_name>…

   remote: Counting objects: 10, done.

   remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8/8), done.

   remove: Total 10 (delta 1), reused 10 (delta 1)

   Unpacking objects: 100% (10/10), done.