Git ContributeLesson 32Free preview

Git Clone from GitHub

This lesson is part of Git · All levels

Summary

Git clone copies the entire repository from the remote to the local computer, including all commit history and all references. The result of an automatic clone has a remote named origin and is in a folder named after the repository. For very large repositories, there is a shallow clone option with --depth.

Key points

Git clone <url> copies the complete repository to local
The resulting automatic clone sets the origin as remote
Clone result folder name followed by repository name
Git clone --depth 1 performs shallow clone without full history

Full lesson

Code examples and quizzes

Full lessons, code examples, and quizzes are available to subscribers. 5 questions.