You can clone a repository from GitHub.com to your local computer, or to a codespace, to make it easier to fix merge conflicts, add or remove files, and push larger commits.

Duplicating a repository To maintain a mirror of a repository without forking it, you can run a special clone command, then mirror-push to the new repository.

You can clone or fork a repository with GitHub Desktop to create a local repository on your computer. You can create a local copy of any repository on GitHub that you have access to by cloning the …

Cloning a repository from GitHub to GitHub Desktop You can use GitHub to clone remote repositories to GitHub Desktop. Tip You also can use GitHub Desktop to clone repositories that exist on GitHub. For …

You can use an SSH URL to clone a repository to your computer, or as a secure way of deploying your code to production servers. You can also use SSH agent forwarding with your deploy script to avoid …

When you fork a project in order to propose changes to the upstream repository, you can configure Git to pull changes from the upstream repository into the local clone of your fork.

You can clone a repository from your GitHub Enterprise Server instance to your local computer to make it easier to fix merge conflicts, add or remove files, and push larger commits.

Cloning a repository To grab a complete copy of another user's repository, use git clone like this: $ git clone https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git # Clones a repository to your computer You …

Add existing repositories from your local computer to GitHub Desktop, or clone repositories from GitHub.

This tutorial focuses on downloading a repository's files to your local computer. For example, if you've found some interesting content in a repository on GitHub, downloading is a simple way to get a copy …