How to clone gitlab project to local

In the process of using Git for version control, you may need to clone the project project on Gitlab locally so that you can modify and submit it locally. This article will introduce how to clone a Gitlab project to a local computer.

Gitlab is a Git-based code hosting platform that can manage projects through a web interface, including creating, modifying, and submitting code. After creating the project on Gitlab, we need to clone it locally for development.

Step 1: Install Git tools

When performing Git version control operations, we need to install Git tools in advance. The Git official website http://git-scm.com/ provides installation packages for each platform. Just select the installation package for the corresponding platform and download it to install it.

Step 2: Obtain the URL address of the project in Gitlab

On the Gitlab platform, open the project that needs to be cloned. Click the "Clone" button on the right side of the page and copy the project's URL address in the pop-up window. The format of this URL address is usually "git@hostname:username/projectname.git", where hostname is the domain name of your Gitlab platform, username is your username, and projectname is your project name.

Step 3: Create a Git repository locally

On the local computer, we need to create a Git repository locally through the following steps.

1. Open a folder, right-click the mouse, and select "Git Bash Here" in the right-click menu.
2. Enter the command "git init" in the pop-up Git command line window. This command will create a new Git repository in the current directory.

Step 4: Clone the Gitlab project to the local

After creating the Git repository locally, we can clone the project on Gitlab to the local. Enter the command "git clone " in the Git command line window (where "" is the project URL address obtained in step 2), as shown in the figure below.

After pressing Enter, Git will start to download the project code from Gitlab and create a local repository that is the same as the remote repository (Gitlab).

Step 5: Modify and submit the code locally

After successfully cloning the project locally, we can edit the code locally. After the code editing is completed, we need to submit the code to the Gitlab platform.

1. Open the Git command line window and switch to the directory of the repository cloned locally.
2. Use the command "git add " to add the modified code file to the temporary storage area.
3. Use the command "git commit -m " to submit the code to the local repository, where "" is your submission information.
4. Use the command "git push" to push the modified code to the Gitlab platform.

So far, we have introduced how to clone the Gitlab project to the local, and modify and submit the code locally. Hope it helps beginners.

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