Starting by joining an existing project¶

You can locate a repository you want to work on, for example, on GitHub, and click on the fork option, this will create an own personal copy of the repository in our account. Then you can get the clone url to download it to your local machine.

davis@davis-arch  ~/projects/learning-git  git clone https://github.com/daviskregers/notes.git
Cloning into 'notes'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 303, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (303/303), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (276/276), done.
remote: Total 303 (delta 84), reused 218 (delta 10), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (303/303), 4.81 MiB | 1.99 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (84/84), done.
davis@davis-arch  ~/projects/learning-git  ls -al
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  3 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:17 ..
drwxr-xr-x 14 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:17 notes
davis@davis-arch  ~/projects/learning-git  cd notes 
davis@davis-arch  ~/projects/learning-git/notes   master  ls -al
total 60
drwxr-xr-x 14 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:17 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:17 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:17 aws
drwxr-xr-x  3 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:17 databases
drwxr-xr-x  2 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:17 docker
drwxr-xr-x  2 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:17 elixir
drwxr-xr-x  3 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:17 frontend
drwxr-xr-x  8 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:17 .git
drwxr-xr-x  2 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:17 images
drwxr-xr-x  2 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:17 javascript
drwxr-xr-x  6 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:17 linux
drwxr-xr-x  2 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:17 osx
drwxr-xr-x  3 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:17 php
-rw-r--r--  1 davis www-data   34 Jan 21 20:17 README.md
drwxr-xr-x  2 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:17 rust
davis@davis-arch  ~/projects/learning-git/notes   master  git status
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean