Clone a repository
Clones an existing repository, creating a local copy of it.
- Use
git clone <url>
to clone an existing repository from<url>
to a local directory. The directory's name will be based on the name of the cloned repository. - Alternatively, use
git clone <url> [<directory>]
to clone the repository into the specified local<directory>
.
git clone <url> [<directory>] # Examples git clone https://github.com/30-seconds/30-seconds-of-code.git # Clones the repository in a new directory named '30-seconds-of-code' cd 30-seconds-of-code git clone https://github.com/30-seconds/30-seconds-of-code.git my-project # Clones the repository in a new directory named 'my-project' cd my-project