Chapter 4: Using Git in a Team
Earlier, we performed a push operation to GitHub, sending a copy of our local repository to the cloud. This is the process you follow when the repository has been created on your local system.
However, if you’re working on a team, it’s possible that some work has already been done on the repository when you join. In this scenario, you need to grab a copy of the code from a central repository and work on it. The process of grabbing this repository is called “cloning”. Cloning is the process of creating a copy of a remote repository. The copy (or clone) that you create has its own project history, and any work done on it is independent of the development on the remote.
The Source Is the origin
If you clone a repository, ...
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