clone and navigate

What you will be able to do

• Explain clone vs init
• Use git log and git show
• Copy a local repo with git clone

Why this matters for data work

You rarely start from zero at work — you clone the team repo. Locally, cloning your own lab repo practices the same commands.

Concepts

• git clone <url> [dir] — copy a repo including history
• git show <commit> — patch and metadata
• git log --oneline --graph — shape of history

Practice on your machine

Clone the local demo as if it were remote (path clone):

cd ~/dcubes/git-lab
git clone ./init-demo init-demo-clone
cd init-demo-clone
git log --oneline
git show HEAD
ls -a

What you should see

• Full file set from init-demo.
• Same commits in log.
• .git present in the clone.

Common mistakes

• Cloning into a non-empty directory accidentally.
• Editing the bare remote — path clones of non-bare repos are for labs only; GitHub is next.

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