I do not know from the online tutorial if I am properly establishing a connection with a git repository that is on a network. All I have learned from a tutorial is how to set up a local repository, but getting data off of a network repository is knowledge I have yet to stumble upon or learn about and I wanted to save time by asking some online help forums. I have just started using git after not using it for a while. I have created a repository. Then, as I was instructed, I made a “git clone” command which consisted of “git clone” followed by a path. I expected this to get the contents of the path and put it into my repository – meaning the directory I made. This did not happen. What do I do? How do I get a local copy of a remote work space for me to work on? I am wondering if there is something like a "fetch" command I should be using. The video tutorial I was looking at instructed how to make a local repository. But if I am trying to get code from a network location, how do I go about making that happen? I was instructed at my job to run this command (copied here in pseudo code) git clone blah-blah:/blah/git/noogie/dork_monkey/ and when I did this grom git-bash it did not produce any errors which led me to think it was the command I needed to do. But I did this from the local directory that I used git init to set up as a local repository. I assumed that typiing a "git clone..." command would have copied all of the files on the blah-blah server over. But it did not. I wonder if all this might have something to do with the fact that I need to get my network up and running first. In my File File Explorer window, when I click on the "This PC" icon on the left, I can see I have five Network locationis mapped to drive letters. But when I click on the Network icon I get an error.
I will suggest you to use Tortoise Git, which has GUI. Once you have download and installed Tortoise Git, create new folder and then copy git clone url from repository, then, right-click inside new folder in local PC, select Tortoise-Git -> Select "Clone here" Pop-up will appear click "Ok" to clone repository, (enter your credentials of repository if another pop-up appears)
