SETTING UP | CLONING

Cloning

, Cloning a repository pulls down a full copy of all the repository data that GitHub.com has at that point in time, including all versions of every file and folder for the project. You can push your changes to the remote repository on GitHub.com, or pull other people's changes from GitHub.com.

About cloning a repository

You can clone a repository from GitHub.com to your local computer to make it easier to fix merge conflicts, add or remove files, and push larger commits. When you clone a repository, you copy the repository from GitHub.com to your local machine. Cloning a repository pulls down a full copy of all the repository data that GitHub.com has at that point in time, including all versions of every file and folder for the project. You can push your changes to the remote repository on GitHub.com, or pull other people's changes from GitHub.com.

You can clone your existing repository or clone another person's existing repository to contribute to a project.

Cloning

We will use git as it is easy you can use other ways to listed after it if you want

$ git clone https://github.com/prakarsh17/tessarect-bot/

Do this in your editor 's shell Doing this will clone all the files from this repo to your editor you can save it on your desktop if you arent using a online editor like Replit After you press enter something like this should happen(example)

$ git clone https://github.com/prakarsh17/tessarect-bot/
> Cloning into `Spoon-Knife`...
> remote: Counting objects: 10, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8/8), done.
> remove: Total 10 (delta 1), reused 10 (delta 1)
> Unpacking objects: 100% (10/10), done.

It is just example files name etc. can be different