From the course: Git: Branches, Merges, and Remotes
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Clone a remote repository
From the course: Git: Branches, Merges, and Remotes
Clone a remote repository
- [Instructor] In the previous movies we learned how to create a Remote Repository, and then how to take the codes on our Local Repository, and push it up to the remote. Now, I want us to consider a different scenario. Let's imagine that we don't have a Local Repository yet. All we have is the Remote Repository. An example would be that, someone else has created a Repository, and now they're asking us to collaborate on it. Or, it could be an open source project that we want to participate in. In those cases, we would not have a Local Repository yet. We would have to download or clone the Remote Repository, so that we had a copy of it. There are a number of ways that you can find another project that already exists. You could be invited to it by someone. You can search for it in the search bar at the top, or you can click Explore, to look around and find projects. Let's imagine that you've been invited by someone, to participate in the explore_california project. And let's imagine…
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