You can clone a repository from GitHub.com to your local computer, or to a codespace, to make it easier to fix merge conflicts, add or remove files, and push larger commits.

Cloning a repository from GitHub to GitHub Desktop You can use GitHub to clone remote repositories to GitHub Desktop. Tip You also can use GitHub Desktop to clone repositories …

You can clone or fork a repository with GitHub Desktop to create a local repository on your computer. You can create a local copy of any repository on GitHub that you have access to by …

To grab a complete copy of another user's repository, use git clone like this: $ git clone https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git # Clones a repository to your computer

You can use an SSH URL to clone a repository to your computer, or as a secure way of deploying your code to production servers. You can also use SSH agent forwarding with your deploy …

If you try to clone [email protected]:owner/repotile.git, but the repository is really named owner/repoti1e you will receive this error. To avoid this error, when cloning, always copy and …

When you fork a project in order to propose changes to the upstream repository, you can configure Git to pull changes from the upstream repository into the local clone of your fork.

At the bottom of the resulting Quick Setup page, under "Import code from an old repository", you can choose to import a project to your new repository. To do so, click Import code.

There are different ways to get a copy of a repository's files on GitHub. You can: Download a snapshot of a repository's files as a zip file to your own (local) computer. Clone a repository to …

Create a bare clone of the repository. Replace the example username with the name of the person or organization who owns the repository, and replace the example repository name …