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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

by Travis Swicegood
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
184 pages
4h 47m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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3.6 Cloning a Remote Repository

One thing we haven’t touched on yet is remote repositories. You’ve built up the mysite repository using commands that interact locally. Git can also deal with remote repositories, however, so you can share your work and get copies of others’ repositories.

To get started with a remote repository, you need to clone it using the git clone command. Cloning a remote repository does what it sounds like. It creates a complete copy of the remote repository that you can start working with.

I already have my copy of mysite shared on GitHub, a Git repository hosting service. You can try the git clone command by creating a clone of it:

 
​prompt> cd /work
 
​prompt> git clone git://github.com/tswicegood/mysite.git ...
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