This tutorial explains how to use the git remote add origin command to connect a local project or repository to a service like GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket.

Figure C Adding a repository URL for cloning in the GitHub Desktop client. Click Clone and the repository will be cloned into the local directory shown in the Local Path field.

For a typical repo, you would grab the repository's URL and issue a git clone command. Unfortunately, it's not always that simple on GitHub's free tier. If you're lucky, when you attempt to clone your ...

Jack Wallen shows you how to add a GitHub shortcut to a Jira project so you can view information about branches, commits and pull requests.

Seen a good third party Android library on GitHub? Find out how to add any library as a remote dependency, or how to clone and use it as a local dependency.

That's all there is to it, and Git will now compare your copy of the repository to that hosted on GitHub and will download any changes. You now know how to clone and pull updates from any GitHub ...

While GitHub offers security features like two-factor authentication and alerts for vulnerable dependencies, public repositories can expose code to anyone, potentially even malicious actors.

Still, using a Git repository also comes with its share of challenges. One of the biggest is that you must comply with the Git repo size limit of different managers like GitHub and Bitbucket to ...