Cloning files from GitHub is really easy whether you're using Windows or the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Developers can bring all the code from a remote Git-based repository to a local machine, or anywhere else. Follow along with these three easy steps with the git clone command to move code from one ...

Source: GitHub (Image credit: Source: GitHub) You don't need a GitHub account to browse code and clone repos, but it's still worth signing up. Only with your own account and repo space can you ...

If you're really, really allergic to copying/moving project files around for some reason, you could clone the repo and then move the ".git" folder into the previously-standalone folder (and delete ...

If you need a quick code repository, you have everything you need with git and SSH. Jack Wallen shows you how it's done.

Keeping your code repositories in-house is a good way to avoid security leaks. Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to connect to a Gogs local repository from the Git command line.

When you use Git to clone a repository, some configuration elements are also intentionally left out to prevent remote servers from fetching and executing code on remote systems.

GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based source code management or version control system, but that’s just the beginning.