Git clone

By cloning a Git repository (repo) you will create a local (on your computer) Git repository from somewhere else. This repository then contains all the code and commits (history). Depending on how a project is structured -by this I mean the conventions of working together- you want to inform the original repository that you have changes.

More exact info will follow on a way that this process can work. But for starters you have to do the following to obtain a local copy of the repo:

• Create a Github account

• Log into your account and go to the user you want to clone a repository from (for this example, use the this documentation tutorial)

• In github, clone the repository to your own github account by using the Fork button.

• Open Powershell or any other console.

• Create/move to a directory in which you want to have this repository.

• Clone the repository locally by

  git clone https://github.com/your_user_name/technical_documentation_how_to.git
  

  

• Move into the newly created directory, and open the directory with VS Code or open the folder from within VS Code

  

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• You'll be able to see the project's content.