Github: How to clone

In this project, you will learn how to clone the code from GitHub to your computer.

Method

You have 4 methods to get your code:

• Clone with GitHub Client

• Clone with SourceTree

• Download as a zip file

• Using command line

Step 1: Get the code

Open GitHub website and choose the code you want to clone. Like ms-iot/holobot git.

Step 2: Clone the code (with GitHub Client)

Open GitHub client or choose Clone or Download and then Open in Desktop. Clone by navigate to File => Clone repository. Enter the GitHub repository website. Like the example above, the website is https://github.com/ms-iot/holobot. Remember to add .git at the end and choose a location you want to clone.

Step 2: Clone the code (with command line)

At your command line (with Windows), enter

cd <your folder path>

Replace <your folder path> to the folder path you want to clone. Next, enter:

git clone <git repository>

Replace the <git repository> to the repository you want to clone. With the example above, I will enter:

git clone https://github.com/ms-iot/holobot.git

Step 3: See your code!

Go to the folder path you cloned to.