GIT-CLONE(1)			  Git Manual			  GIT-CLONE(1)



NAME
       git-clone - Clone a repository into a new directory

SYNOPSIS
       git clone [--template=<template-directory>]
		 [-l] [-s] [--no-hardlinks] [-q] [-n] [--bare] [--mirror]
		 [-o <name>] [-b <name>] [-u <upload-pack>] [--reference <repository>]
		 [--dissociate] [--separate-git-dir <git-dir>]
		 [--depth <depth>] [--[no-]single-branch] [--no-tags]
		 [--recurse-submodules[=<pathspec>]] [--[no-]shallow-submodules]
		 [--[no-]remote-submodules] [--jobs <n>] [--sparse] [--[no-]reject-shallow]
		 [--filter=<filter> [--also-filter-submodules]] [--] <repository>
		 [<directory>]


DESCRIPTION
       Clones a repository into a newly created directory, creates
       remote-tracking branches for each branch in the cloned repository
       (visible using git branch --remotes), and creates and checks out an
       initial branch that is forked from the cloned repository's currently
       active branch.

       After the clone, a plain git fetch without arguments will update all
       the remote-tracking branches, and a git pull without arguments will in
       addition merge the remote master branch into the current master branch,
       if any (this is untrue when "--single-branch" is given; see below).

       This default configuration is achieved by creating references to the
       remote branch heads under refs/remotes/origin and by initializing
       remote.origin.url and remote.origin.fetch configuration variables.

OPTIONS
       -l, --local
	   When the repository to clone from is on a local machine, this flag
	   bypasses the normal "Git aware" transport mechanism and clones the
	   repository by making a copy of HEAD and everything under objects
	   and refs directories. The files under .git/objects/ directory are
	   hardlinked to save space when possible.

	   If the repository is specified as a local path (e.g.,
	   /path/to/repo), this is the default, and --local is essentially a
	   no-op. If the repository is specified as a URL, then this flag is
	   ignored (and we never use the local optimizations). Specifying
	   --no-local will override the default when /path/to/repo is given,
	   using the regular Git transport instead.

	   NOTE: this operation can race with concurrent modification to the
	   source repository, similar to running cp -r src dst while modifying
	   src.

       --no-hardlinks
	   Force the cloning process from a repository on a local filesystem
	   to copy the files under the .git/objects directory instead of using
	   hardlinks. This may be desirable if you are trying to make a
	   back-up of your repository.

       -s, --shared
	   When the repository to clone is on the local machine, instead of
	   using hard links, automatically setup .git/objects/info/alternates
	   to share the objects with the source repository. The resulting
	   repository starts out without any object of its own.

	   NOTE: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do not use it unless
	   you understand what it does. If you clone your repository using
	   this option and then delete branches (or use any other Git command
	   that makes any existing commit unreferenced) in the source
	   repository, some objects may become unreferenced (or dangling).
	   These objects may be removed by normal Git operations (such as git
	   commit) which automatically call git maintenance run --auto. (See
	   git-maintenance(1).) If these objects are removed and were
	   referenced by the cloned repository, then the cloned repository
	   will become corrupt.

	   Note that running git repack without the --local option in a
	   repository cloned with --shared will copy objects from the source
	   repository into a pack in the cloned repository, removing the disk
	   space savings of clone --shared. It is safe, however, to run git
	   gc, which uses the --local option by default.

	   If you want to break the dependency of a repository cloned with
	   --shared on its source repository, you can simply run git repack -a
	   to copy all objects from the source repository into a pack in the
	   cloned repository.

       --reference[-if-able] <repository>
	   If the reference repository is on the local machine, automatically
	   setup .git/objects/info/alternates to obtain objects from the
	   reference repository. Using an already existing repository as an
	   alternate will require fewer objects to be copied from the
	   repository being cloned, reducing network and local storage costs.
	   When using the --reference-if-able, a non existing directory is
	   skipped with a warning instead of aborting the clone.

	   NOTE: see the NOTE for the --shared option, and also the
	   --dissociate option.

       --dissociate
	   Borrow the objects from reference repositories specified with the
	   --reference options only to reduce network transfer, and stop
	   borrowing from them after a clone is made by making necessary local
	   copies of borrowed objects. This option can also be used when
	   cloning locally from a repository that already borrows objects from
	   another repository--the new repository will borrow objects from the
	   same repository, and this option can be used to stop the borrowing.

       -q, --quiet
	   Operate quietly. Progress is not reported to the standard error
	   stream.

       -v, --verbose
	   Run verbosely. Does not affect the reporting of progress status to
	   the standard error stream.

       --progress
	   Progress status is reported on the standard error stream by default
	   when it is attached to a terminal, unless --quiet is specified.
	   This flag forces progress status even if the standard error stream
	   is not directed to a terminal.

       --server-option=<option>
	   Transmit the given string to the server when communicating using
	   protocol version 2. The given string must not contain a NUL or LF
	   character. The server's handling of server options, including
	   unknown ones, is server-specific. When multiple
	   --server-option=<option> are given, they are all sent to the other
	   side in the order listed on the command line.

       -n, --no-checkout
	   No checkout of HEAD is performed after the clone is complete.

       --[no-]reject-shallow
	   Fail if the source repository is a shallow repository. The
	   clone.rejectShallow configuration variable can be used to specify
	   the default.

       --bare
	   Make a bare Git repository. That is, instead of creating
	   <directory> and placing the administrative files in
	   <directory>/.git, make the <directory> itself the $GIT_DIR. This
	   obviously implies the --no-checkout because there is nowhere to
	   check out the working tree. Also the branch heads at the remote are
	   copied directly to corresponding local branch heads, without
	   mapping them to refs/remotes/origin/. When this option is used,
	   neither remote-tracking branches nor the related configuration
	   variables are created.

       --sparse
	   Employ a sparse-checkout, with only files in the toplevel directory
	   initially being present. The git-sparse-checkout(1) command can be
	   used to grow the working directory as needed.

       --filter=<filter-spec>
	   Use the partial clone feature and request that the server sends a
	   subset of reachable objects according to a given object filter.
	   When using --filter, the supplied <filter-spec> is used for the
	   partial clone filter. For example, --filter=blob:none will filter
	   out all blobs (file contents) until needed by Git. Also,
	   --filter=blob:limit=<size> will filter out all blobs of size at
	   least <size>. For more details on filter specifications, see the
	   --filter option in git-rev-list(1).

       --also-filter-submodules
	   Also apply the partial clone filter to any submodules in the
	   repository. Requires --filter and --recurse-submodules. This can be
	   turned on by default by setting the clone.filterSubmodules config
	   option.

       --mirror
	   Set up a mirror of the source repository. This implies --bare.
	   Compared to --bare, --mirror not only maps local branches of the
	   source to local branches of the target, it maps all refs (including
	   remote-tracking branches, notes etc.) and sets up a refspec
	   configuration such that all these refs are overwritten by a git
	   remote update in the target repository.

       -o <name>, --origin <name>
	   Instead of using the remote name origin to keep track of the
	   upstream repository, use <name>. Overrides clone.defaultRemoteName
	   from the config.

       -b <name>, --branch <name>
	   Instead of pointing the newly created HEAD to the branch pointed to
	   by the cloned repository's HEAD, point to <name> branch instead. In
	   a non-bare repository, this is the branch that will be checked out.
	   --branch can also take tags and detaches the HEAD at that commit in
	   the resulting repository.

       -u <upload-pack>, --upload-pack <upload-pack>
	   When given, and the repository to clone from is accessed via ssh,
	   this specifies a non-default path for the command run on the other
	   end.

       --template=<template-directory>
	   Specify the directory from which templates will be used; (See the
	   "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of git-init(1).)

       -c <key>=<value>, --config <key>=<value>
	   Set a configuration variable in the newly-created repository; this
	   takes effect immediately after the repository is initialized, but
	   before the remote history is fetched or any files checked out. The
	   key is in the same format as expected by git-config(1) (e.g.,
	   core.eol=true). If multiple values are given for the same key, each
	   value will be written to the config file. This makes it safe, for
	   example, to add additional fetch refspecs to the origin remote.

	   Due to limitations of the current implementation, some
	   configuration variables do not take effect until after the initial
	   fetch and checkout. Configuration variables known to not take
	   effect are: remote.<name>.mirror and remote.<name>.tagOpt. Use the
	   corresponding --mirror and --no-tags options instead.

       --depth <depth>
	   Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified
	   number of commits. Implies --single-branch unless
	   --no-single-branch is given to fetch the histories near the tips of
	   all branches. If you want to clone submodules shallowly, also pass
	   --shallow-submodules.

       --shallow-since=<date>
	   Create a shallow clone with a history after the specified time.

       --shallow-exclude=<revision>
	   Create a shallow clone with a history, excluding commits reachable
	   from a specified remote branch or tag. This option can be specified
	   multiple times.

       --[no-]single-branch
	   Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch,
	   either specified by the --branch option or the primary branch
	   remote's HEAD points at. Further fetches into the resulting
	   repository will only update the remote-tracking branch for the
	   branch this option was used for the initial cloning. If the HEAD at
	   the remote did not point at any branch when --single-branch clone
	   was made, no remote-tracking branch is created.

       --no-tags
	   Don't clone any tags, and set remote.<remote>.tagOpt=--no-tags in
	   the config, ensuring that future git pull and git fetch operations
	   won't follow any tags. Subsequent explicit tag fetches will still
	   work, (see git-fetch(1)).

	   Can be used in conjunction with --single-branch to clone and
	   maintain a branch with no references other than a single cloned
	   branch. This is useful e.g. to maintain minimal clones of the
	   default branch of some repository for search indexing.

       --recurse-submodules[=<pathspec>]
	   After the clone is created, initialize and clone submodules within
	   based on the provided pathspec. If no pathspec is provided, all
	   submodules are initialized and cloned. This option can be given
	   multiple times for pathspecs consisting of multiple entries. The
	   resulting clone has submodule.active set to the provided pathspec,
	   or "." (meaning all submodules) if no pathspec is provided.

	   Submodules are initialized and cloned using their default settings.
	   This is equivalent to running git submodule update --init
	   --recursive <pathspec> immediately after the clone is finished.
	   This option is ignored if the cloned repository does not have a
	   worktree/checkout (i.e. if any of --no-checkout/-n, --bare, or
	   --mirror is given)

       --[no-]shallow-submodules
	   All submodules which are cloned will be shallow with a depth of 1.

       --[no-]remote-submodules
	   All submodules which are cloned will use the status of the
	   submodule's remote-tracking branch to update the submodule, rather
	   than the superproject's recorded SHA-1. Equivalent to passing
	   --remote to git submodule update.

       --separate-git-dir=<git-dir>
	   Instead of placing the cloned repository where it is supposed to
	   be, place the cloned repository at the specified directory, then
	   make a filesystem-agnostic Git symbolic link to there. The result
	   is Git repository can be separated from working tree.

       -j <n>, --jobs <n>
	   The number of submodules fetched at the same time. Defaults to the
	   submodule.fetchJobs option.

       <repository>
	   The (possibly remote) repository to clone from. See the GIT URLS
	   section below for more information on specifying repositories.

       <directory>
	   The name of a new directory to clone into. The "humanish" part of
	   the source repository is used if no directory is explicitly given
	   (repo for /path/to/repo.git and foo for host.xz:foo/.git). Cloning
	   into an existing directory is only allowed if the directory is
	   empty.

       --bundle-uri=<uri>
	   Before fetching from the remote, fetch a bundle from the given
	   <uri> and unbundle the data into the local repository. The refs in
	   the bundle will be stored under the hidden refs/bundle/* namespace.
	   This option is incompatible with --depth, --shallow-since, and
	   --shallow-exclude.

GIT URLS
       In general, URLs contain information about the transport protocol, the
       address of the remote server, and the path to the repository. Depending
       on the transport protocol, some of this information may be absent.

       Git supports ssh, git, http, and https protocols (in addition, ftp, and
       ftps can be used for fetching, but this is inefficient and deprecated;
       do not use it).

       The native transport (i.e. git:// URL) does no authentication and
       should be used with caution on unsecured networks.

       The following syntaxes may be used with them:

       o   ssh://[user@]host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/

       o   git://host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/

       o   http[s]://host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/

       o   ftp[s]://host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/

       An alternative scp-like syntax may also be used with the ssh protocol:

       o   [user@]host.xz:path/to/repo.git/

       This syntax is only recognized if there are no slashes before the first
       colon. This helps differentiate a local path that contains a colon. For
       example the local path foo:bar could be specified as an absolute path
       or ./foo:bar to avoid being misinterpreted as an ssh url.

       The ssh and git protocols additionally support ~username expansion:

       o   ssh://[user@]host.xz[:port]/~[user]/path/to/repo.git/

       o   git://host.xz[:port]/~[user]/path/to/repo.git/

       o   [user@]host.xz:/~[user]/path/to/repo.git/

       For local repositories, also supported by Git natively, the following
       syntaxes may be used:

       o   /path/to/repo.git/

       o   file:///path/to/repo.git/

       These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except the former implies
       --local option.

       git clone, git fetch and git pull, but not git push, will also accept a
       suitable bundle file. See git-bundle(1).

       When Git doesn't know how to handle a certain transport protocol, it
       attempts to use the remote-<transport> remote helper, if one exists. To
       explicitly request a remote helper, the following syntax may be used:

       o   <transport>::<address>

       where <address> may be a path, a server and path, or an arbitrary
       URL-like string recognized by the specific remote helper being invoked.
       See gitremote-helpers(7) for details.

       If there are a large number of similarly-named remote repositories and
       you want to use a different format for them (such that the URLs you use
       will be rewritten into URLs that work), you can create a configuration
       section of the form:

		   [url "<actual url base>"]
			   insteadOf = <other url base>


       For example, with this:

		   [url "git://git.host.xz/"]
			   insteadOf = host.xz:/path/to/
			   insteadOf = work:


       a URL like "work:repo.git" or like "host.xz:/path/to/repo.git" will be
       rewritten in any context that takes a URL to be
       "git://git.host.xz/repo.git".

       If you want to rewrite URLs for push only, you can create a
       configuration section of the form:

		   [url "<actual url base>"]
			   pushInsteadOf = <other url base>


       For example, with this:

		   [url "ssh://example.org/"]
			   pushInsteadOf = git://example.org/


       a URL like "git://example.org/path/to/repo.git" will be rewritten to
       "ssh://example.org/path/to/repo.git" for pushes, but pulls will still
       use the original URL.

EXAMPLES
       o   Clone from upstream:

	       $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux.git my-linux
	       $ cd my-linux
	       $ make


       o   Make a local clone that borrows from the current directory, without
	   checking things out:

	       $ git clone -l -s -n . ../copy
	       $ cd ../copy
	       $ git show-branch


       o   Clone from upstream while borrowing from an existing local
	   directory:

	       $ git clone --reference /git/linux.git \
		       git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux.git \
		       my-linux
	       $ cd my-linux


       o   Create a bare repository to publish your changes to the public:

	       $ git clone --bare -l /home/proj/.git /pub/scm/proj.git


CONFIGURATION
       Everything below this line in this section is selectively included from
       the git-config(1) documentation. The content is the same as what's
       found there:

       init.templateDir
	   Specify the directory from which templates will be copied. (See the
	   "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of git-init(1).)

       init.defaultBranch
	   Allows overriding the default branch name e.g. when initializing a
	   new repository.

       clone.defaultRemoteName
	   The name of the remote to create when cloning a repository.
	   Defaults to origin, and can be overridden by passing the --origin
	   command-line option to git-clone(1).

       clone.rejectShallow
	   Reject to clone a repository if it is a shallow one, can be
	   overridden by passing option --reject-shallow in command line. See
	   git-clone(1)

       clone.filterSubmodules
	   If a partial clone filter is provided (see --filter in git-rev-
	   list(1)) and --recurse-submodules is used, also apply the filter to
	   submodules.

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite



Git 2.38.4			  05/16/2024			  GIT-CLONE(1)