Git: Create (or) clone a Git repository

In this post, I am going to show you how to create (or) get a git repository.

Create a new Git repository

Go to the project directory and execute ‘git init’ command.

For example, Create HelloWorld directory and execute ‘git init’ command.

C:\Users\Public\gitDemos\HelloWorld>git init
Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Users/Public/gitDemos/HelloWorld/.git/

Once you execute the command ‘git init’, it creates a new subdirectory .git folder inside it.

.git folder contains multiple folders inside it.

Clone existing git repository

By using 'git clone' command, you can clone the existing git repository.

For example, the command ‘git clone https://github.com/junit-team/junit4.git´clones entire junit git repository. Once you executed the clone command, it creates a directory name junit4 and initializes a .git directory inside it.

C:\Users\Public\gitDemos>git clone https://github.com/junit-team/junit4.git
Cloning into 'junit4'...
remote: Counting objects: 56165, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (31/31), done.
remote: Total 56165 (delta 6), reused 3 (delta 1), pack-reused 56132
Receiving objects: 100% (56165/56165), 22.16 MiB | 1.67 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (40228/40228), done.
Checking out files: 100% (562/562), done.

Whenever you clone a repository, you will get all the data of the repository, including history (not only the current working copy).

Note

a. How to clone the repository to separate directory?

git clone https://github.com/junit-team/junit4.git  junitSourceCode

Above command copies all the git repository to junitSourceCode folder.

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