To clone an existing Git repository from a remote server, follow these steps:
- Open your terminal or command prompt.
- Navigate to the directory where you want to clone the repository.
- Run the following command:
git clone <remote-repository-url>
- Replace
<remote-repository-url>
with the URL of the remote repository.
- For example, if the repository's URL is
https://github.com/exampleuser/example-repo.git
, the command would be: git clone https://github.com/exampleuser/example-repo.git
- Press Enter to execute the command.
- Git will start cloning the remote repository to your local machine. You should see progress and status messages indicating the progress of the cloning process.
- Once the cloning process is complete, you will have a new directory with the same name as the repository in your chosen location.
- Now, you can make changes to the code and use Git to manage your local repository.