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Previous episode Git merge conflicts: why Git stops and asks you

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git clone: what you really get when you copy a Git project

One git clone, and a Git project lands on a new laptop. Is that only today's files, or much more? What a clone really holds, and why it can open old versions with no internet.

  1. 1 First you put a copy of your repository on a server, a computer on the internet that stays on. Git calls a shared copy like this a remote, and yours is named origin.your laptopa serverorigin

    First you put a copy of your repository on a server, a computer on the internet that stays on. Git calls a shared copy like this a remote, and yours is named origin.

  2. 2 At home, Rono runs git clone with the address of origin, and his laptop gets far more than the game as it is today.Rono?git clone

    At home, Rono runs git clone with the address of origin, and his laptop gets far more than the game as it is today.

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