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Getting the project with GitHub Desktop

Getting the project with GitHub Desktop

From the course: Learning GitHub

Getting the project with GitHub Desktop

- [Instructor] Once you are logged in GitHub Desktop, you can start to work with GitHub repository. Click on file, and then clone repository from this window. You can clone a repository from your GitHub account, or from your private GitHub enterprise account, or repository from another user. As we were talking about in chapter two, cloning a repository makes a local copy on your local machine. The clone pulls down a full copy of all the repository data that GitHub.com has in that moment. Let's start with our own repository. From this tab, you can select the repository from the list of your repository on the website. So I can click here, File, Clone a Repository, and then from here I can clone my own repository. Once you have selected what you are interested in, you can define the local path, and then you can click on the Clone button. After the synchronization with your local machine, the application selects your latest…

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