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<h1>Cloning Basics</h1>

<h2>Cloning someone else's Git protocol-hosted repo</h2>

<p>List of Git-hosted projects</p>

<pre><code>http://git.apache.org
</code></pre>

<p>Get a full copy of a Git project</p>

<pre><code>git clone git://git.apache.org/commons-logging.git
</code></pre>

<p>or the <a href="http://github.com/grails/grails-core">Grails project</a>, which has several branches:</p>

<pre><code>git clone http://github.com/grails/grails-core.git
git clone git://github.com/grails/grails-core.git
</code></pre>

<h2>Cloning an HTTP repo</h2>

<p>Apache also is pushing nightly syncs to GitHub</p>

<pre><code>http://github.com/apache/commons-logging
</code></pre>

<p>Clone from GitHub (can be forked)</p>

<pre><code>git clone http://github.com/apache/commons-logging.git
</code></pre>

<h2>Remotes</h2>

<p>Show all remotes' simple names</p>

<pre><code>git remote
</code></pre>

<p>Show remotes with URLs</p>

<pre><code>git remote -v
</code></pre>

<p>Add a new remote</p>

<pre><code>git remote add NAME URL
</code></pre>