Cloning

[jeannemarierossouw]

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I am a collaborator on one of my colleague’s projects’ on Github, but it refuses to clone into my documents. I have followed all the steps as I should have and another person whom is more experienced than me also tried with no luck.

Please help to resolve it as I have to make changes for the client asap.

[GhostOf0days]

If you can't clone from the terminal, try downloading Github Desktop and cloning on there.

[jeannemarierossouw]

I have just tried that. It also don't want to work. It only cloned the .git file and not the rest of the content/files

[GhostOf0days]

Why don’t you fork the other repo, download your repo as a zip file, and work using branching on the unzipped files, and use Github Desktop to locate the files you unzipped. This essentially is cloning without actually cloning.

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