Git Clone 

“git clone” does a local copy of a remote Git repository. Cloning creates a complete local copy of a remote repository, including its history and all branches.

“git clone” has the following syntax:

git clone <repository-url>

To clone a repository located at https://github.com/user/repo.git, for example, run the following command:

git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git 

Whenever you clone a repository, Git creates a directory with the same name as the repository. If you want it to clone into a different directory, you can specify the directory name after the repository URL.

git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git <directory-name>

It will download everything from the repository to your local machine, including all the commits, branches, and tags, when you run the “git clone” command. After the clone is complete, you can use Git commands to manage the repository on your local machine, like committing changes, creating branches, and pushing changes back to the remote repository. 

Steps to clone a repository are as follows:

Step 1:

Go to the repository’s main page on GitHub.

Step 2:

Click Clone or Download under the repository name.

Step 3:

Copy the URL from your browser for the empty repository and skip to the next step.

Step 4:

You can create a local copy of the repository by opening Git Bash and changing the current working directory to the location you want.

Step 5:

You can make a copy of the remote repository with the git clone command.

$ git clone https://github.com/ImDwivedi1/Git-Example.git  

The local cloned repository will be created. See the output below:

Here’s how git clones files and directories from a remote repository to the local repository.

If you want to work on a project that’s on a remote server or collaborate with others on a project, cloning a repository can be useful. It’s easy to manage the code and collaborate with others when you have a complete copy of a repository and its entire history by cloning it.