Clone a remote repository

GitHub makes it easy to share your coding projects. The process of downloading a GitHub repository to your computer is called “cloning.” When you clone a repository, you get a copy of its history as a local Git repository. Downloading (in contrast to closing) a repository just downloads the files from the most recent commit. Let's try it.

In the better-sleeptime, delete all the files! (you can try the command rm -rf ./* ./.*)

Next, run the following command but replace <repository> with the URL of your GitHub repository (the one we made in the previous steps). Notice the trailing dot (.) at the end of the command which indicates to copy the repository content in the current folder.

git clone <repository> .

You now should have all the files you had deleted! This is a clone (a copy) of the GitHub repository.