Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to clone a repository from GitHub. Git is the most widely-used distributed version control system on the planet. It’s free, open-source and can handle ...

In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create a private GitHub repository, then demonstrate how to securely clone and pull your code locally without the need to deal with fatal errors.

The Microsoft-owned GitHub platform is the largest of its kind for sharing and collaborating on a variety of code projects.

Set up a GitHub account before anything else (Image credit: Source: GitHub) You don't need a GitHub account to browse code and clone repos, but it's still worth signing up.