sreenivas./courses
Git & GitHub for Beginners — all lessons

$ git clone <url>

done. 2 commits, all history.

MODULE 03 · 4 MIN READ

Clone — copy the project down

Our class repo lives at https://github.com/ssai/git-course-team. Cloning downloads the entire repository — every file and every commit ever made — and automatically nicknames the remote origin.

git bash

$ git clone https://github.com/ssai/git-course-team

Cloning into 'git-course-team'...

done. 2 commits, all history, the whole repo — now on your laptop.

remote nicknamed 'origin' automatically.

$ git remote -v

origin https://github.com/ssai/git-course-team (fetch)

origin https://github.com/ssai/git-course-team (push)

💻 YOUR LAPTOP

nothing here yet — git clone to begin
↑ push ·↓ pull (2 behind!)

☁️ GITHUB · origin/main

r1a2bInitial commit
r2b3cAdd about/TEMPLATE.md + my about file

🏆 THE TEAM — about/ on main

SSAI001 — instructor
practice terminal — you cannot break it

a tiny simulated laptop, wired up to a fake GitHub. clone to begin.

$ 

// try: git clone https://github.com/ssai/git-course-team, then: git remote -v

Next: Push — send your commits up →