Git Clone (git-clone) Operation

A Git Clone (git-clone) Operation is a git command that is a clone operation (for cloning a repository into a new local directory).

• Context:
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• Example(s):
  • a GitHub Clone Operation, such as:
    • git clone http://github.com/sbt/sbt-git
    • git clone git@github.com:username/repo.git
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • git pull.
  • git status.
  • git commit.
  • git push.
  • git rebase.
• See: GitHub, Git Pull, Git Push.

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References

2017

• https://help.github.com/articles/cloning-a-repository/
  • Type git clone, and then paste the URL you copied in Step 2.

    git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPOSITORY/

2015

• https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone
  • NAME: git-clone - Clone a repository into a new directory
  • SYNOPSIS git clone [--template=<template_directory>] [-l] [-s] [--no-hardlinks] [-q] [-n] [--bare] [--mirror] [-o <name>] [-b <name>] [-u <upload-pack>] [--reference <repository>] [--dissociate] [--separate-git-dir <git dir>] [--depth <depth>] [--[no-]single-branch] [--recursive | --recurse-submodules] [--] <repository> [<directory>]
  • DESCRIPTION: Clones a repository into a newly created directory, creates remote-tracking branches for each branch in the cloned repository (visible using git branch -r), and creates and checks out an initial branch that is forked from the cloned repository’s currently active branch.

    After the clone, a plain git fetch without arguments will update all the remote-tracking branches, and a git pull without arguments will in addition merge the remote master branch into the current master branch, if any (this is untrue when "--single-branch" is given; see below).

    This default configuration is achieved by creating references to the remote branch heads under refs/remotes/origin and by initializing remote.origin.url and remote.origin.fetch configuration variables.

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