GIT - Clone
Behavior of git clone If someone else gives you the location of their directory or repository, you can copy or clone it to your own computer. This is true for both copying a directory and cloning a repository. As you saw in the previous lesson, if you have a URL to a repository, you can copy it to your computer using git clone . For copying a directory, you weren't expected to know this, but it is possible to copy a directory from one computer to another using the command scp , which stands for "secure copy". The name was chosen because the scp command lets you securely copy a directory from one computer to another. The history of changes to the directory or repository is copied. This is true for cloning a repository, but not for copying a directory. The main reason to use git clone rather than copying the directory is because git clone will also copy the commit history of the repository. However, copying can be done on an...