SourceTree Creating a Clone Repository (Working Copy) from the remote Repository.

Before working on a repository, we will have to create a local copy of the repository from the remote repository, this can be done by cloning the remote repository. Cloning will make a full copy of the remote repository in the local machine, changes committed in the local working copy will get applied to the local repository, and later the changes can be merged to the remote repository by pushing the changes from local to remote repository.

In this post we shall see on how to clone a copy of the remote repository to the local machine. Before starting make sure that you install SourceTree in your local machine. Once you have SourceTree follow the below steps to clone the remote repository.

Cloning a Remote Repository using Git Bash

Cloning a Remote Repository using Git Bash

The clone command can be used to cone a copy of the existing remote repository, alternatively you can also create a new repository all together using the “$ git init” command.

In this post we shall cone an existing repository, which resides in a remote machine. In my case the remote repository is hosted in BitBucket, you can clone any remote repository from the web like BitBucket, GitHub etc or from a local machine in the network.

Use the following steps to clone a remote repository using Git Bash