# GitHub Clone

Skill · Software Development and Engineering Practices

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/github-clone

Cloning a GitHub repository means creating a full local copy of a remote repository, including its entire commit history and branches, using the 'git clone' command. Developers do this to get a working copy of a project on their own machine so they can make changes, run the code, or contribute to it. It's typically the first step when starting to work with an existing codebase hosted on GitHub.

Related skills: [Git](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/git), [Version Control](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/version-control), [GitHub](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/github)

## Open roles requiring GitHub Clone (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.