Second, issue the git clone command to locally copy the contents of a remotely hosted Git repository. In this git clone command tutorial, we provide an example of how to do the latter.

Keeping your code repositories in-house is a good way to avoid security leaks. Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to connect to a Gogs local repository from the Git command line.

How to clone a repository from the command line This method is even easier and assumes you have Git installed on your machine.

With the new Git repository created, a programmer can concentrate on developing code, performing Git commits and interacting with remote repositories though push, pull and fetch operations. Git init ...

Cloning files from GitHub is really easy whether you're using Windows or the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based source code management or version control system, but that’s just the beginning.