7.2 Cloning a Remote Repository
Sharing your work with other developers means you need a remote repository. The easiest way to work with a remote repository is to clone an existing repository. Cloning creates a local copy of the remote repository.
For projects that are already in progress, this is the normal route, but it isn’t the only one. A remote repository can be configured later if you start working on a project by yourself and then need to share it. See Adding a Remote Repository Later for details.
Your local copy created by cloning works like it would if you had created it yourself
using git init; the only difference is that you get
the history of the repository up to the point you created the clone.
You use the git clone command ...
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