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Clone a forked repo

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Clone a forked repo

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- [Instructor] Now that I've got a forked copy of the VS Code repository, I can clone it the same way I clone any other repository: just go to Team Explorer, go to Connections, click on Clone, find the repository; this is it right here. I'll clone it into the default location. This is a large project. Some of these open-source projects are huge, so it could take many minutes for it to download after you click the Clone button. See, there's 781,000 objects being downloaded. On my machine, it took a couple of minutes for it to download and make copies of the repository. Remember, it has to copy all the files but it also has to copy all of the database information that's inside the .git folder. So, it's available now, and then I can click on Solution Explorer and see all of the information. Here's all of the source code for Microsoft's VS Code. So, what's the takeaway from this? Forking is simple, and making a clone of that…

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