How To Clone a Github Repository - caihackathon/facer GitHub Wiki

  1. Goto the Github repository page of the repository you want to clone
  2. Click the "Clone or download" button towards the right side of the screen
  3. Copy the Clone URL
  4. On your machine, cd to the proper directory. The git clone cmd will create a child directory that has the name of the GitHub repository
  5. git clone <paste_clone_url_here>
  1. As git clone retrieves the repository, you will see status messages printing
  2. cd into the new directory. This new directory is now a local git repository and all git commands will work here.
  3. git branch -a This will list both the local and remote branches . You should see a branch called master and at least one remote branch called remotes/origin/master
  4. done