Learn about Git and version control setup, Git config, commits, branching, resolving merge conflicts, and key commands like Git pull, Git rebase, and Git stash for seamless workflows.

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This comprehensive course is your ultimate guide to learning Git and version control. You’ll start with the basics of Git version control, such as setting up your Git config and running basic terminal commands like the echo command. Then, you’ll explore GitHub as a development platform and understand Git snapshots.

You’ll advance your skills by creating and managing Git commits, undoing changes with Git undo commit, and reviewing your project’s history using Git logs. You’ll also tackle branching—learn how to rename or delete branches and confidently resolve Git merge conflicts. Additionally, you’ll master repository management with Git commands and organize changes using Git checkout, Git stash, and more.

After completing this course, you’ll be ready to use Git commands in your projects—a career-boosting skill for every software developer.

Learn Git

# The `git clone` command
We can use the `git clone` command to clone or copy the entire codebase of a project from a remote repository and set it up as a local repository on our machines.

While cloning the project, two more actions occur as well:

1. The `git clone` command will also create a remote link to the remote repository being cloned and name it `origin`.
This is similar to manually entering the command `git remote add origin <remote_repository_url>`.

2. It will copy and set up the primary branch, which is the master branch in most cases, as the active branch in the working directory.

You can test this command out yourself in the terminal provided at the end of the lesson. You can look up a repository on GitHub that you like and clone it.

```
git clone <link_to_repository>
```
## Cloning a particular branch
In case you want to clone a branch that the **HEAD** in the remote repository doesn't point to by default, you can also provide the name of that specific branch with the `git clone` command. For example, you might want to download or clone a branch other than the `master` branch.

> The HEAD is the latest commit or snapshot of the branch that you are on. Consider it to be the last piece of a chain. 

For a remote repository, if you used the `git clone` command without specifying a particular branch name, the HEAD will be considered to be the latest commit in the `master` branch.  

```
git clone --branch <branch_name> <link_to_repository>
```

## Shallow cloning
Sometimes, we might come across a remote repository that we want to clone, but its commit history might be too long, resulting in longer times to download and clone. This occurs when the project is very large and has a very large commit history. You can opt to clone the commit history up to a certain point by using the `--depth` flag.

Try the following command in the terminal provided below:
```
git clone <repository_url> --depth 1
```
You can change the depth number according to your requirement.

# Try it yourself

In the terminal provided below, try out the commands to clone a repository from GitHub on your own. You can clone a repository that you've created or clone any other repository you want. As an example, try cloning this repository: 
```
https://github.com/githubteacher/github-slideshow.git
```
This is a simple public [repository](https://github.com/githubteacher/github-slideshow) for getting familiar with GitHub. You don't need to worry about the contents of the repository itself.

You will need to enter the following command:

```
git clone https://github.com/githubteacher/github-slideshow.git
``` 
Try entering the command in the terminal below:

Learn how to clone remote repositories to your local machine in this lesson.

Introduction to Git

Git Config

Git Branch

Git merge

GitHub

Git Rebase

Git Clone

The `git clone` command

Cloning a particular branch

Shallow cloning

Try it yourself