Have you found a cool project on Github and you want to contribute to it, but doing so entails more than just editing a text document using the Github user interface?
In this tutorial, we will walk you through how to clone a remote repository project so that you can work on it on your own machine.
- You are reading this on a computer with a keyboard of some sort
- You have Git installed and configured
- You have the
Terminalapplication or an equivalent command line interface installed
Before we can clone the repository we want to work on, we need make a nice home for it. Using the Terminal (or your favorite shell interface), navigate to a directory of your choice and create a new directory with the name of your choosing. Change into your nascent directory.
In the directory, run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/learninglab-dev/remote-collab
This will copy the entirety of the contents of this repository into your current working directory. cd into the cloned repository and feel free to poke around!
Try the following:
git log
This will display the history of all of the changes made to the repository, when they are made, and who made them.
In order to clone a repository other than this one, just replace the URL in the git clone command above with the URL of your desired repository.