Linux in a Nutshell, 6th Edition

Name

clone

Synopsis

git clone repository [local-directory]

Make a copy of repository (which can be a local or remote Git repository) in local-directory. By default, if repository is on the local filesystem, Git will use hardlinks to copy the .git/objects folder to minimize disk space waste.

Available forms for repository are:

/path/repo.git

rsync://hostname/path/repo.git

http://hostname/path/repo.git

https://hostname/path/repo.git

git://host/path/repo.git

ssh://host/path/repo.git

ssh://user@host:port/path/repo.git

host:path/repo.git

user@host:path/repo.git

Options

-s, --shared

--no-hardlinks

--reference other-parent-repository

-q, --quiet

-n, --no-checkout

--bare

-o origin-name, --origin origin-name

--depth shallow-clone-depth

Examples

To clone the Linux kernel repository:

$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/
torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux-2.6