Git - Clone

git clone creates a local repository from remote repository you’d like to contribute to.

cloning in git means:

• downloading the remote repository into a newly created directory
• setting for each downloaded branch (ie remote branch) their remote-tracking branches
• set the current branch (active) to the remote current branch.

After a first clone of a repository, all files will be tracked and unmodified because they are just checked out and they haven’t been edited.

Clone an existing Git repository from another server.

git clone [option] [url] [directory]

We can also use the following protocol in place of https:

• git://
• ssh with [email protected]:path/to/repo.git
• –depth 1 grabs the current file state and no history (handy for a build)

Git’s clone command automatically:

• create the origin name,
• pulls down all its data,
• creates a pointer to where its master branch is,
• names it origin/master locally.
• create a local master branch starting at the same place as origin’s master branch (where you will work to)

• creates a directory named “directoryWhereIwantMyCheckoutData” (The default name is the name of the git file in the URL) ,
• get the clone URL from the Web

git clone https://github.com/gerardnico/the-name-of-my-repository.git directoryWhereIwantMyCheckoutData

Cloning into 'directoryWhereIwantMyCheckoutData'...
remote: Counting objects: 77, done.
remote: Total 77 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 77
Unpacking objects: 100% (77/77), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

It will:

• initializes a .git directory inside it,
• pulls down all the data for that repository,
• and checks out a working copy of the latest version.

with init and pull

git init
git pull https://.....git "branch"

git clone --depth=50 --branch=stable https://.....git .

• git-clone