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In Git<\/code>, git clone<\/code> is a very important command. It can be understood by cloning or downloading a repository into a new directory from a remote server, like Github<\/code>. It’s commonly used to connect to Github<\/code>, based on knowing the project git link.<\/p>\n

1. Introduction<\/h2>\n

In addition, Git<\/code> has multiple different repositories that we need to pay attention to, like the local workspace, the index(stating area also), local repository and the remote repository. So we need to have a good understanding about all these repositories.<\/p>\n

In this article, I’ll explain some aspects of git clone repository and the common usage of the command. For other aspects of Git<\/code>, you can check out my other articles on Git<\/code><\/a>.<\/p>\n

All the examples below is shown in MacOS EI Capitan Version 10.11.5 and the Git version is 2.7.4.\n<\/p>\n

2. Github settings and git installation<\/h2>\n

Before we go to the real examples, we need to install Git firstly. Also we want to have a Github account and set it up.<\/p>\n

To download Git, you can go to the download webpage<\/a> and install it according to the operating system. It supports different operating systems: MacOS, Windows, Linux and Solaris.<\/p>\n

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git download<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

After the instruction for installation, you can check the Git<\/code> version via command git --version<\/code> in your terminal. Mine is like below after the version checking command:<\/p>\n

WXMs-MacBook-Pro:~ WXM$ git --version\ngit version 2.7.4 (Apple Git-66)\n<\/pre>\n
Then you need to register your own account from the webpage of Github<\/a>. Coming back to the Github<\/code> settings. Open the terminal on your computer\/laptop. Then type the following command to make sure that Git knows your user name.<\/p>\n
$ git config --global user.name \"YOUR NAME\"\n<\/pre>\n
After this, you need to associate your email address with your Git<\/code> commit. You can use the following command in your terminal to connect them. Here, be sure that the email address is the one that you used for register the Github account.<\/p>\n
$ git config --global user.email \"YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS\"\n<\/pre>\n
Next, you need to authenticate with Github<\/code> from Git<\/code>. When you want to connect Github<\/code> from your Git<\/code>, you need authentication from Github<\/code>. Two methods could be chosen for this:
 
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