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Pushing & Cloning

Send commits to GitHub with git push and copy a full repository to a new machine with git clone.

Pushing changes

Once a remote is set, git push sends new commits to GitHub for others to see.

git push origin main

Cloning a repo

git clone downloads the full history of a repo and sets up origin automatically — ready to work immediately.

git clone https://github.com/username/my-app.git

Quick check: Which command downloads a full copy of a remote repository, including its history?

  • git remote add origin
  • git push
  • git clone
  • git fetch only
Answer

git clone — `git clone` copies the entire repository, while `git remote add` only links an existing local repo to a URL.