1git-clone(1) 2============ 3v0.1, July 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-clone - Clones a repository. 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 11-------- 12'git clone' [-l [-s]] [-q] [-n] [-u <upload-pack>] <repository> <directory> 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Clones a repository into a newly created directory. 17 18OPTIONS 19------- 20--local:: 21-l:: 22 When the repository to clone from is on a local machine, 23 this flag bypasses normal "git aware" transport 24 mechanism and clones the repository by making a copy of 25 HEAD and everything under objects and refs directories. 26 The files under .git/objects/ directory are hardlinked 27 to save space when possible. 28 29--shared:: 30-s:: 31 When the repository to clone is on the local machine, 32 instead of using hard links automatically setup 33 .git/objects/info/alternatives to share the objects 34 with the source repository 35 36--quiet:: 37-q:: 38 Operate quietly. This flag is passed to "rsync" and 39 "git-clone-pack" commands when given. 40 41-n:: 42 No checkout of HEAD is performed after the clone is complete. 43 44--upload-pack <upload-pack>:: 45-u <upload-pack>:: 46 When given, and the repository to clone from is handled 47 by 'git-clone-pack', '--exec=<upload-pack>' is passed to 48 the command to specify non-default path for the command 49 run on the other end. 50 51<repository>:: 52 The (possibly remote) repository to clone from. It can 53 be an "rsync://host/dir" URL, an "http://host/dir" URL, 54 or [<host>:]/dir notation that is used by 'git-clone-pack'. 55 Currently http transport is not supported. 56 57<directory>:: 58 The name of a new directory to be cloned into. It is an 59 error to specify an existing directory. 60 61Author 62------ 63Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 64 65Documentation 66-------------- 67Documentation by Junio C Hamano. 68 69 70GIT 71--- 72Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 73