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.

The key difference between Git clone and fork comes down to how much control and independence you want over the codebase once you've copied it. Any public Git repository can be forked or cloned. A ...

Need to git clone a specific commit? There's no single command to do it, but clever use of branch and reset commands makes it possible to clone a single, specific git commit.

Seen a good third party Android library on GitHub? Find out how to add any library as a remote dependency, or how to clone and use it as a local dependency.

Select Clone. While in this view, you can also see all repositories available to clone from your signed in hosting account, such as Bitbucket and GitHub, from the list below the clone URL text entry.

A new Remote Repositories preview extension lets developers working in Visual Studio Code remotely browse and edit GitHub repos, without having to clone them locally and then open them up in the ...

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 ...

Nevertheless, every user is being urged to implement the new update as soon as possible, and to be careful when attempting to access or clone Git repositories on unsafe or untrusted hosts.