

Once a developer has obtained a working copy, all version control operations and collaborations are managed through their local repository. Like git init, cloning is generally a one-time operation. If a project has already been set up in a central repository, the git clone command is the most common way for users to obtain a development copy.

Purpose: repo-to-repo collaboration development copy This page will explore more complex cloning and configuration scenarios. On the setting up a repository guide, we covered a basic use case of git clone.

Here we'll examine the git clone command in depth.
