Copying a GitHub Repository to Your Local Computer

This is video #7 in the Data School series, "Introduction to Git and GitHub." Relevant links, a command list, and the full transcript are below. Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5-da3qGB5IBLMp7LtN8Nc3Efd4hJq0kD == LET'S CONNECT! == Blog: http://www.dataschool.io Newsletter: http://www.dataschool.io/subscribe/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/justmarkham GitHub: https://github.com/justmarkham == LINKS RELATED TO THIS VIDEO == Cloning a Repo: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Getting-a-Git-Repository Adding a Remote: https://help.github.com/articles/adding-a-remote Working with Remotes: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Working-with-Remotes SSH vs HTTPS: https://help.github.com/articles/which-remote-url-should-i-use == COMMAND LIST == clone repo: git clone [URL] check remotes: git remote -v add origin: git remote add origin [URL] initialize git: git init change directory: cd list files: ls == TRANSCRIPT == In this video, we're going to copy a GitHub repository to your local computer. The process I'll show you will work for a repo you created yourself or a repo you forked from someone else. For this demo, I'm going to use the "test-repo" that we created in the last video. Let's open up Git Bash. This shows my working directory. I'm going to change my working directory to the Desktop. Now we're ready to go. Note that all git commands start with the word "git", and then the name of the command, and then usually one or more arguments. In this case, we're going to use the "git clone" command to clone a GitHub repo. You simply type "git clone" and then the URL of the repo. How do you get that URL? I recommend that you go to the repo, scroll down here, and click the "Copy" button. Now go back to Git Bash, and at least in Windows, you can hit the "Insert" button on your keyboard to paste it. (The usual paste keyboard shortcut doesn't seem to work in Git Bash.) If all else fails, just paste the URL somewhere else and retype it. If you're followi