Setting up your own copy of the GRE repo - roman-gardens/gre GitHub Wiki

Before starting to edit gardens or create new gardens, you will need get a copy of the GRE repo on your own computer.

First, fork the repo into your own GitHub account:

  1. Go to the main GRE training repo at https://github.com/roman-gardens/gre-training
    (or https://github.com/roman-gardens/gre if you are ready to work on the real thing)
  2. Click the "Fork" button in the top right
  3. (you may need to select your GitHub account)

Second, clone your fork to your local computer:

  1. Open VSCode
  2. If another project is open, go to the File menu > Close Folder
  3. On the left, click the "Source Control" tab image
  4. Click the "Clone Repository" button
  5. At the top, click "Clone from GitHub"
  6. Type or select your username followed by a slash and "gre" -- for example mygithubname/gre
  7. Select where you would like to create the repo folder on your local computer (for example, in your Documents folder)

It may take a few minutes to download the entire repository to your local computer. (But once it has completed, transferring any updates in the future should be much faster, since Git only needs to send or receive the parts of files that have changed.)