Developers can bring all the code from a remote Git-based repository to a local machine, or anywhere else. Follow along with these three easy steps with the git clone command to move code from one ...

That's where GitHub CLI comes in. An official tool made by GitHub, it's good to use both on Windows 10 and Windows 11 in PowerShell or within the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to clone a repository from GitHub. Git is the most widely-used distributed version control system on the planet.

You now know the very basics of using Git to clone any GitHub repo. The only ones you can't clone are private repos not under your ownership, but everything else that's public is fair game.

Git fork commands There is also a GitHub CLI tool you can install to do a GitHub command line fork, but again, this is a special function provided by a third party, it is not a feature native to Git ...