How to clone repo from Github

alfanfauzy

alfanfauzy

Posted on June 13, 2022

How to clone repo from Github

In the last month, my office migrate the Repositories from Gitlab to Github. I try to write this article for sharing and as my documentation.

Disclaimer : I have account in Github before and I use mac Terminal

Step 1

For the first step, I am install Github via Terminal.

brew install gh
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wait the process install until see the finished installation.

Step 2

Second step, authenticated with Github Account.

gh auth login
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follow the instruction until authenticate with Github Account

Screenshoot gh auth login

Step 3

Third step, create ssh-keygen to set to Github Account so we can clone the repo.

ssh-keygen
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The file will create in folder /Users/yourname/.ssh/. From this step will be generate 2 file id_rsa and id_rsa.pub

Copy text file from id_rsa.pub with command

pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
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Paste text info your account Github.

Last

After following all step, in the last step. I just clone the repo with command

git clone <repo link>
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But, if you doing this in new computer which is the github/gitlab account didn't setting before. Check with

sss -T git@gitlab.com
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Source

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alfanfauzy
alfanfauzy

Posted on June 13, 2022

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