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GIT-CLONE(1)			  Git Manual			  GIT-CLONE(1)

NAME
       git-clone - Clone a repository into a new directory

SYNOPSIS
       git clone [--template=<template_directory>]
		 [-l] [-s] [--no-hardlinks] [-q] [-n] [--bare] [--mirror]
		 [-o <name>] [-b <name>] [-u <upload-pack>] [--reference <repository>]
		 [--separate-git-dir <git dir>]
		 [--depth <depth>] [--[no-]single-branch]
		 [--recursive | --recurse-submodules] [--] <repository>
		 [<directory>]

DESCRIPTION
       Clones a repository into a newly created directory, creates
       remote-tracking branches for each branch in the cloned repository
       (visible using git branch -r), and creates and checks out an initial
       branch that is forked from the cloned repository’s currently active
       branch.

       After the clone, a plain git fetch without arguments will update all
       the remote-tracking branches, and a git pull without arguments will in
       addition merge the remote master branch into the current master branch,
       if any (this is untrue when "--single-branch" is given; see below).

       This default configuration is achieved by creating references to the
       remote branch heads under refs/remotes/origin and by initializing
       remote.origin.url and remote.origin.fetch configuration variables.

OPTIONS
       --local, -l
	   When the repository to clone from is on a local machine, this flag
	   bypasses the normal "Git aware" transport mechanism and clones the
	   repository by making a copy of HEAD and everything under objects
	   and refs directories. The files under .git/objects/ directory are
	   hardlinked to save space when possible.

	   If the repository is specified as a local path (e.g.,
	   /path/to/repo), this is the default, and --local is essentially a
	   no-op. If the repository is specified as a URL, then this flag is
	   ignored (and we never use the local optimizations). Specifying
	   --no-local will override the default when /path/to/repo is given,
	   using the regular Git transport instead.

	   To force copying instead of hardlinking (which may be desirable if
	   you are trying to make a back-up of your repository), but still
	   avoid the usual "Git aware" transport mechanism, --no-hardlinks can
	   be used.

       --no-hardlinks
	   Optimize the cloning process from a repository on a local
	   filesystem by copying files under .git/objects directory.

       --shared, -s
	   When the repository to clone is on the local machine, instead of
	   using hard links, automatically setup .git/objects/info/alternates
	   to share the objects with the source repository. The resulting
	   repository starts out without any object of its own.

	   NOTE: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do not use it unless
	   you understand what it does. If you clone your repository using
	   this option and then delete branches (or use any other Git command
	   that makes any existing commit unreferenced) in the source
	   repository, some objects may become unreferenced (or dangling).
	   These objects may be removed by normal Git operations (such as git
	   commit) which automatically call git gc --auto. (See git-gc(1).) If
	   these objects are removed and were referenced by the cloned
	   repository, then the cloned repository will become corrupt.

	   Note that running git repack without the -l option in a repository
	   cloned with -s will copy objects from the source repository into a
	   pack in the cloned repository, removing the disk space savings of
	   clone -s. It is safe, however, to run git gc, which uses the -l
	   option by default.

	   If you want to break the dependency of a repository cloned with -s
	   on its source repository, you can simply run git repack -a to copy
	   all objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned
	   repository.

       --reference <repository>
	   If the reference repository is on the local machine, automatically
	   setup .git/objects/info/alternates to obtain objects from the
	   reference repository. Using an already existing repository as an
	   alternate will require fewer objects to be copied from the
	   repository being cloned, reducing network and local storage costs.

	   NOTE: see the NOTE for the --shared option.

       --quiet, -q
	   Operate quietly. Progress is not reported to the standard error
	   stream. This flag is also passed to the ‘rsync’ command when given.

       --verbose, -v
	   Run verbosely. Does not affect the reporting of progress status to
	   the standard error stream.

       --progress
	   Progress status is reported on the standard error stream by default
	   when it is attached to a terminal, unless -q is specified. This
	   flag forces progress status even if the standard error stream is
	   not directed to a terminal.

       --no-checkout, -n
	   No checkout of HEAD is performed after the clone is complete.

       --bare
	   Make a bare Git repository. That is, instead of creating
	   <directory> and placing the administrative files in
	   <directory>/.git, make the <directory> itself the $GIT_DIR. This
	   obviously implies the -n because there is nowhere to check out the
	   working tree. Also the branch heads at the remote are copied
	   directly to corresponding local branch heads, without mapping them
	   to refs/remotes/origin/. When this option is used, neither
	   remote-tracking branches nor the related configuration variables
	   are created.

       --mirror
	   Set up a mirror of the source repository. This implies --bare.
	   Compared to --bare, --mirror not only maps local branches of the
	   source to local branches of the target, it maps all refs (including
	   remote-tracking branches, notes etc.) and sets up a refspec
	   configuration such that all these refs are overwritten by a git
	   remote update in the target repository.

       --origin <name>, -o <name>
	   Instead of using the remote name origin to keep track of the
	   upstream repository, use <name>.

       --branch <name>, -b <name>
	   Instead of pointing the newly created HEAD to the branch pointed to
	   by the cloned repository’s HEAD, point to <name> branch instead. In
	   a non-bare repository, this is the branch that will be checked out.
	   --branch can also take tags and detaches the HEAD at that commit in
	   the resulting repository.

       --upload-pack <upload-pack>, -u <upload-pack>
	   When given, and the repository to clone from is accessed via ssh,
	   this specifies a non-default path for the command run on the other
	   end.

       --template=<template_directory>
	   Specify the directory from which templates will be used; (See the
	   "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of git-init(1).)

       --config <key>=<value>, -c <key>=<value>
	   Set a configuration variable in the newly-created repository; this
	   takes effect immediately after the repository is initialized, but
	   before the remote history is fetched or any files checked out. The
	   key is in the same format as expected by git-config(1) (e.g.,
	   core.eol=true). If multiple values are given for the same key, each
	   value will be written to the config file. This makes it safe, for
	   example, to add additional fetch refspecs to the origin remote.

       --depth <depth>
	   Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified
	   number of revisions. A shallow repository has a number of
	   limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from it, nor push from nor
	   into it), but is adequate if you are only interested in the recent
	   history of a large project with a long history, and would want to
	   send in fixes as patches.

       --[no-]single-branch
	   Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch,
	   either specified by the --branch option or the primary branch
	   remote’s HEAD points at. When creating a shallow clone with the
	   --depth option, this is the default, unless --no-single-branch is
	   given to fetch the histories near the tips of all branches. Further
	   fetches into the resulting repository will only update the
	   remote-tracking branch for the branch this option was used for the
	   initial cloning. If the HEAD at the remote did not point at any
	   branch when --single-branch clone was made, no remote-tracking
	   branch is created.

       --recursive, --recurse-submodules
	   After the clone is created, initialize all submodules within, using
	   their default settings. This is equivalent to running git submodule
	   update --init --recursive immediately after the clone is finished.
	   This option is ignored if the cloned repository does not have a
	   worktree/checkout (i.e. if any of --no-checkout/-n, --bare, or
	   --mirror is given)

       --separate-git-dir=<git dir>
	   Instead of placing the cloned repository where it is supposed to
	   be, place the cloned repository at the specified directory, then
	   make a filesytem-agnostic Git symbolic link to there. The result is
	   Git repository can be separated from working tree.

       <repository>
	   The (possibly remote) repository to clone from. See the URLS
	   section below for more information on specifying repositories.

       <directory>
	   The name of a new directory to clone into. The "humanish" part of
	   the source repository is used if no directory is explicitly given
	   (repo for /path/to/repo.git and foo for host.xz:foo/.git). Cloning
	   into an existing directory is only allowed if the directory is
	   empty.

GIT URLS
       In general, URLs contain information about the transport protocol, the
       address of the remote server, and the path to the repository. Depending
       on the transport protocol, some of this information may be absent.

       Git supports ssh, git, http, and https protocols (in addition, ftp, and
       ftps can be used for fetching and rsync can be used for fetching and
       pushing, but these are inefficient and deprecated; do not use them).

       The following syntaxes may be used with them:

       ·   ssh://[user@]host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/

       ·   git://host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/

       ·   http[s]://host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/

       ·   ftp[s]://host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/

       ·   rsync://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/

       An alternative scp-like syntax may also be used with the ssh protocol:

       ·   [user@]host.xz:path/to/repo.git/

       The ssh and git protocols additionally support ~username expansion:

       ·   ssh://[user@]host.xz[:port]/~[user]/path/to/repo.git/

       ·   git://host.xz[:port]/~[user]/path/to/repo.git/

       ·   [user@]host.xz:/~[user]/path/to/repo.git/

       For local repositories, also supported by Git natively, the following
       syntaxes may be used:

       ·   /path/to/repo.git/

       ·   file:///path/to/repo.git/

       These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except the former implies
       --local option.

       When Git doesn’t know how to handle a certain transport protocol, it
       attempts to use the remote-<transport> remote helper, if one exists. To
       explicitly request a remote helper, the following syntax may be used:

       ·   <transport>::<address>

       where <address> may be a path, a server and path, or an arbitrary
       URL-like string recognized by the specific remote helper being invoked.
       See gitremote-helpers(1) for details.

       If there are a large number of similarly-named remote repositories and
       you want to use a different format for them (such that the URLs you use
       will be rewritten into URLs that work), you can create a configuration
       section of the form:

		   [url "<actual url base>"]
			   insteadOf = <other url base>

       For example, with this:

		   [url "git://git.host.xz/"]
			   insteadOf = host.xz:/path/to/
			   insteadOf = work:

       a URL like "work:repo.git" or like "host.xz:/path/to/repo.git" will be
       rewritten in any context that takes a URL to be
       "git://git.host.xz/repo.git".

       If you want to rewrite URLs for push only, you can create a
       configuration section of the form:

		   [url "<actual url base>"]
			   pushInsteadOf = <other url base>

       For example, with this:

		   [url "ssh://example.org/"]
			   pushInsteadOf = git://example.org/

       a URL like "git://example.org/path/to/repo.git" will be rewritten to
       "ssh://example.org/path/to/repo.git" for pushes, but pulls will still
       use the original URL.

EXAMPLES
       ·   Clone from upstream:

	       $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.6 my2.6
	       $ cd my2.6
	       $ make

       ·   Make a local clone that borrows from the current directory, without
	   checking things out:

	       $ git clone -l -s -n . ../copy
	       $ cd ../copy
	       $ git show-branch

       ·   Clone from upstream while borrowing from an existing local
	   directory:

	       $ git clone --reference my2.6 \
		       git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.7 \
		       my2.7
	       $ cd my2.7

       ·   Create a bare repository to publish your changes to the public:

	       $ git clone --bare -l /home/proj/.git /pub/scm/proj.git

       ·   Create a repository on the kernel.org machine that borrows from
	   Linus:

	       $ git clone --bare -l -s /pub/scm/.../torvalds/linux-2.6.git \
		   /pub/scm/.../me/subsys-2.6.git

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

Git 1.8.3.1			  06/24/2013			  GIT-CLONE(1)
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