GitHub is used for a variety of reasons, not least as a way to distribute your own code. One of the absolute basics is cloning a repository from GitHub to your local machine.

First, create a new local repository with the git init command. Second, issue the git clone command to locally copy the contents of a remotely hosted Git repository. In this git clone command tutorial ...

How to successfully clone a private GitHub repository. The first thing a developer wants to do after the creation of a GitHub repository is to clone it. For a typical repo, you would grab the ...

Keeping your code repositories in-house is a good way to avoid security leaks. Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to connect to a Gogs local repository from the Git command line.

Developers often use git repositories to store and retrieve source code files. This is usually done on a desktop computer, but new iOS apps allow you to access git repositories while on the go.

Still, using a Git repository also comes with its share of challenges. One of the biggest is that you must comply with the Git repo size limit of different managers like GitHub and Bitbucket to ...