Documentation/git-clone.txt

   1 git-clone(1)
   2 ============
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-clone - Clones a repository.
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 [verse]
  12 'git-clone' [-l [-s]] [-q] [-n] [--bare] [-o <name>] [-u <upload-pack>]
  13           <repository> [<directory>]
  14
  15 DESCRIPTION
  16 -----------
  17 Clones a repository into a newly created directory.  All remote
  18 branch heads are copied under `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/`, except
  19 that the remote `master` is also copied to `origin` branch.
  20
  21 In addition, `$GIT_DIR/remotes/origin` file is set up to have
  22 this line:
  23
  24         Pull: master:origin
  25
  26 This is to help the typical workflow of working off of the
  27 remote `master` branch.  Every time `git pull` without argument
  28 is run, the progress on the remote `master` branch is tracked by
  29 copying it into the local `origin` branch, and merged into the
  30 branch you are currently working on.  Remote branches other than
  31 `master` are also added there to be tracked.
  32
  33
  34 OPTIONS
  35 -------
  36 --local::
  37 -l::
  38         When the repository to clone from is on a local machine,
  39         this flag bypasses normal "git aware" transport
  40         mechanism and clones the repository by making a copy of
  41         HEAD and everything under objects and refs directories.
  42         The files under .git/objects/ directory are hardlinked
  43         to save space when possible.
  44
  45 --shared::
  46 -s::
  47         When the repository to clone is on the local machine,
  48         instead of using hard links, automatically setup
  49         .git/objects/info/alternatives to share the objects
  50         with the source repository.  The resulting repository
  51         starts out without any object of its own.
  52
  53 --quiet::
  54 -q::
  55         Operate quietly.  This flag is passed to "rsync" and
  56         "git-clone-pack" commands when given.
  57
  58 -n::
  59         No checkout of HEAD is performed after the clone is complete.
  60
  61 --bare::
  62         Make a 'bare' GIT repository.  That is, instead of
  63         creating `<directory>` and placing the administrative
  64         files in `<directory>/.git`, make the `<directory>`
  65         itself the `$GIT_DIR`. This implies `-n` option.  When
  66         this option is used, neither the `origin` branch nor the
  67         default `remotes/origin` file is created.
  68
  69 -o <name>::
  70         Instead of using the branch name 'origin' to keep track
  71         of the upstream repository, use <name> instead.  Note
  72         that the shorthand name stored in `remotes/origin` is
  73         not affected, but the local branch name to pull the
  74         remote `master` branch into is.
  75
  76 --upload-pack <upload-pack>::
  77 -u <upload-pack>::
  78         When given, and the repository to clone from is handled
  79         by 'git-clone-pack', '--exec=<upload-pack>' is passed to
  80         the command to specify non-default path for the command
  81         run on the other end.
  82
  83 <repository>::
  84         The (possibly remote) repository to clone from.  It can
  85         be any URL git-fetch supports.
  86
  87 <directory>::
  88         The name of a new directory to clone into.  The "humanish"
  89         part of the source repository is used if no directory is
  90         explicitly given ("repo" for "/path/to/repo.git" and "foo"
  91         for "host.xz:foo/.git").  Cloning into an existing directory
  92         is not allowed.
  93
  94 Examples
  95 ~~~~~~~~
  96
  97 Clone from upstream::
  98 +
  99 ------------
 100 $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.6 my2.6
 101 $ cd my2.6
 102 $ make
 103 ------------
 104
 105
 106 Make a local clone that borrows from the current directory, without checking things out::
 107 +
 108 ------------
 109 $ git clone -l -s -n . ../copy
 110 $ cd copy
 111 $ git show-branch
 112 ------------
 113
 114
 115 Create a bare repository to publish your changes to the public::
 116 +
 117 ------------
 118 $ git clone --bare -l /home/proj/.git /pub/scm/proj.git
 119 ------------
 120
 121
 122 Create a repository on the kernel.org machine that borrows from Linus::
 123 +
 124 ------------
 125 $ git clone --bare -l -s /pub/scm/.../torvalds/linux-2.6.git \
 126     /pub/scm/.../me/subsys-2.6.git
 127 ------------
 128
 129
 130 Author
 131 ------
 132 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
 133
 134
 135 Documentation
 136 --------------
 137 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 138
 139
 140 GIT
 141 ---
 142 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
 143