AI engineering glossary · Command line Git
What is clone?
Clone: Creating a full local copy of a remote repository, including all history and branches, and setting it up to track the source. It is the first step for working on an existing project.
Clone: an example
git clone https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git downloads the project folder to your machine.
Related terms
More Command line Git terms
- Code review
- Command argument
- Command history
- Command-line flag
- Command-line interface
- Commit
- Commit hash
- Continuous integration
Where you learn it
Clone is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.