Chapter 11. Cloning
Cloning, the act of making a physical copy of a Git repository, is the first step in collaborating with others. You’ll be covering collaboration over this and the next three chapters. When you clone a repository, you make an exact replica of that repository. The clone has a special reference to the original repository. This reference lets your clone push (send) and pull (receive) changes to and from the original repository. You’ll study this special reference (called a remote) in the next chapter, and then read about push and pull in chapters 13 and 14.
In this chapter, you’ll make a copy of your repository by using git clone. You’ll examine your clone and figure out how to confirm that it’s an exact copy of the original, ...
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