{"id":9725,"date":"2017-09-05T12:41:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T16:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/?p=9725"},"modified":"2020-03-12T14:39:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T18:39:24","slug":"how-to-clone-a-github-repository","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wordpress-tutorials\/how-to-clone-a-github-repository\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Clone a GitHub Repository"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When you create a repository<\/b>, it is hosted directly on GitHub as a remote<\/i> repository. You can clone it to get a local<\/i> copy on your computer so you can make changes. The following guide will show you how to clone a repository<\/strong> to the server or computer you will be using to work on it. <\/p>\n

We are going to be using an example project we have on GitHub<\/a> for this tutorial<\/div>\n

How to clone a repository<\/h2>\n
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  1. \"\"<\/a>Point your browser to the main page of the GitHub Repository you want to clone.\n
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  2. \"\"<\/a>Select the Clone or Download<\/b> Button\n
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  3. \"\"<\/a>If the drop down menu shows Clone with SSH<\/b>, then select the Use HTTPS<\/b> option\n
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  4. \"\"<\/a>Check to ensure the drop down menu shows Clone with HTTPS<\/b> before proceeding\n
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  5. \"\"<\/a>Select the clipboard icon to copy the URL\n
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  6. \"\"<\/a>You will see the following message once you have copied the URL to your clipboard\n
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  7. \"\"<\/a>Open your SSH Terminal and login to your server\n
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  8. \"\"<\/a>Change to the directory in which you want to store the project\n
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  9. \"\"<\/a>Type git clone<\/b> and then paste the URL you copied in step 3\n
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  10. \"\"<\/a>Press Enter<\/b> and your local clone will be created\n
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  11. \"\"<\/a>You can run ls -lah<\/code> to ensure the files were downloaded correctly\n
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    When cloning a repository, a folder is created with the repository’s name in the working folder you clone it in<\/div>\n

    Congratulations! You now know how to clone a repository<\/b> to your local server. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    When you create a repository, it is hosted directly on GitHub as a remote repository. You can clone it to get a local copy on your computer so you can make changes. The following guide will show you how to clone a repository to the server or computer you will be using to work on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":529,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"bgseo_title":"How to clone a Repository from GitHub","bgseo_description":"This tutorial explains how you can clone a repository from GitHub to get a local copy on your computer or server, where you can make changes to the project","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress-tutorials"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9725"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18909,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725\/revisions\/18909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}