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One other thing about Get Clone.

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Something that I do get asked frequently from beginners is Do I have permission to clone this stuff?

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The answer is yes.

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If you see it on GitHub, if you actually can see it, you have permission to clone it and do whatever

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you want with it.

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In terms of tweaking the code.

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And it doesn't mean you can turn around and resell it necessarily depending on how it's licensed, but

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you definitely are able to clone that repository to your machine.

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So anybody can clone if it's a public repository, and if it was private, it wouldn't be able to see

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it anyways.

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You wouldn't, right?

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You wouldn't know the URL, you wouldn't be able to go to it on GitHub.

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But if you can see it on GitHub, copy that URL, you can clone it.

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You don't need to be an owner or a contributor.

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However, you're not allowed to just push up your own changes.

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We haven't talked about pushing, but once we get there, you can't just push changes up to a repository

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that somebody else owns.

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There's a whole workflow for suggesting changes for becoming a contributor, but you can't just take

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over someone's repository, clone it, delete everything, and then push that up to GitHub.

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So that's very, very important to understand.

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If you see the repo on GitHub, you can clone it.

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Now, everything I've said has been cloning or everything I've demonstrated has been using Git clone

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with GitHub repositories.

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Because GitHub is so popular, it's the standard place to host git repositories.

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But remember that Git clone works with any hosted repository.

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In fact, if you go to the documentation the Git docs for get clone, there is no mention of GitHub

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anywhere on here.

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So even if that's where a lot of people are using it is to clone GitHub repos.

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That's just how people are using it.

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That is not the nature of the command.

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Instead, it works with any hosted repository.

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Whether that's something that you're serving yourself like maybe a company has their own internal server

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with a hosted repo, or maybe we're using something like GitLab.

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So I actually struggled to find something that was public that we could clone that was not from GitHub.

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But here's an example.

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This is a project on GitLab.

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It's just called Sample Project.

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It's really just for demonstrating how to clone something on GitLab.

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So you don't need to go through and follow along with this.

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But if you want to, I'll include the link.

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I'm just going to copy the URL and then I'm going to go to my terminal.

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If I can find it over here, I'm going to make sure I'm not in a repository.

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So I am back out now.

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I'm not and I run Git Clone and this time it's not a github URL.

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Right?

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This is entirely different.

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And it looks like it worked.

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I have a new folder called Sample Project.

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This is not exciting on the inside, but you can see I'm in a git repo.

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I'm on the master branch right now.

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Get status here's get log.

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There's four or so commits in there.

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All right, so just proof that git clone is not tied to GitHub, it's just a native git command.

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Most of the usage you'll see online is with GitHub, but it will clone any hosted repo.