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How to Git clone your remote repository

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Hi, I am Malathi Boggavarapu and welcome to my blog. This tutorial describes how to clone the remote repository to your local machine and try out different commands to know about the commits that were made in the repository and we also talk a bit about branches and tags. I have a seperate post " Git Fundamentals " in my blog which explains everything about Git but i had broken them down to smaller sections to make it easy for everyone to follow. This post will only introduce you to Git. So let's get started. Working remotly with Git Let's look at cloning our remote repository to our local machine. In our example i use jquery repository on github. git clone https://github.com/jquery/jquery.git This is going to download the entire history of the project, all of the commits that have been made to the jquery repo. You can use  git log  command to see the commits that have been made to the project. To see more condensed version, use  git l