1git-clone(1) 2============ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-clone - Clones a repository. 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-clone' [-l [-s]] [-q] [-n] [-u <upload-pack>] <repository> <directory> 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Clones a repository into a newly created directory. 16 17OPTIONS 18------- 19--local:: 20-l:: 21 When the repository to clone from is on a local machine, 22 this flag bypasses normal "git aware" transport 23 mechanism and clones the repository by making a copy of 24 HEAD and everything under objects and refs directories. 25 The files under .git/objects/ directory are hardlinked 26 to save space when possible. 27 28--shared:: 29-s:: 30 When the repository to clone is on the local machine, 31 instead of using hard links automatically setup 32 .git/objects/info/alternatives to share the objects 33 with the source repository 34 35--quiet:: 36-q:: 37 Operate quietly. This flag is passed to "rsync" and 38 "git-clone-pack" commands when given. 39 40-n:: 41 No checkout of HEAD is performed after the clone is complete. 42 43--upload-pack <upload-pack>:: 44-u <upload-pack>:: 45 When given, and the repository to clone from is handled 46 by 'git-clone-pack', '--exec=<upload-pack>' is passed to 47 the command to specify non-default path for the command 48 run on the other end. 49 50<repository>:: 51 The (possibly remote) repository to clone from. It can 52 be an "rsync://host/dir" URL, an "http://host/dir" URL, 53 or [<host>:]/dir notation that is used by 'git-clone-pack'. 54 Currently http transport is not supported. 55 56<directory>:: 57 The name of a new directory to be cloned into. It is an 58 error to specify an existing directory. 59 60Author 61------ 62Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 63 64Documentation 65-------------- 66Documentation by Junio C Hamano. 67 68 69GIT 70--- 71Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 72