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