From the course: Working with LinkedIn Learning Exercise Files on GitHub

Clone the repository to your local computer - GitHub Tutorial

From the course: Working with LinkedIn Learning Exercise Files on GitHub

Clone the repository to your local computer

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- [Instructor] Once you've found a repository for a LinkedIn Learning course, your next step is to clone that repository so you can use it on your local computer. If you're going to work with GitHub Desktop, you'll need to have installed Git itself, and then you'll need to download and install, GitHub Desktop the application. This software is completely free, and it's available for macOS and Windows. On this webpage, you'll see a large button for your operating system and a smaller link for the other one. If you're working with macOS, you'll be downloading a zip file that contains the application itself. There isn't an installer. Just extract from this zip file and copy the application to your applications folder. On Windows, you'll get an executable. And when you run it, you'll go through an installation process. You can accept all the default settings. And once again, when the installer is complete, you'll be ready to use the application. The first time you open GitHub Desktop, you'll be prompted to create a GitHub account. You don't need to do that to work with LinkedIn Learning repositories. Although it does make it a little bit easier in a couple of different steps. But I'm going to assume that you don't have such an account and show you how to get started from there. Once you've installed and started up GitHub Desktop and gotten to this page, go back to your repository. Click the Code button. Now, if you're logged into GitHub from GitHub Desktop, you can use this link, open with GitHub Desktop. And that'll take this URL and open it directly in the application. If you aren't logged in to GitHub Desktop, you can instead just copy this URL. Just click that button, then return to this screen. Click clone a repository from the internet. Click the URL tab and paste. In the local path, you can decide where you're going to put your copy of the repository. It'll default to documents/GitHub, but I usually just shorten that to create a GitHub directory right under my home directory. Once you set that you can click clone, and you'll download and open the repository in GitHub Desktop. And so if you've gotten to this point, you're ready for the next step, working with your GitHub repository on your local computer.

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