- A github account
Open your browser and go to: https://github.com/sunnyvale-academy/ITS-ICT_Microservices
The ITS-ICT_Microservices repo home page opens.
Click on Fork button at the top-right of the screen. GitHub asks you to authenticate.
When you enter as logged-in user, re-click on Fork button at the top-right of the screen. Forking a repository allows you create a copy of the original repo on your GitHub account so as to freely experiment with changes without affecting the original project.
When forked the original repo, clone it on your PC.
In the following command, please make sure to change <YOUR GITHUB ACCOUNT> placeolders accordingly:
- <YOUR PREFERRED FOLDER> with the folder you want to clone this repo into
- <YOUR GITHUB ACCOUNT> with your actual GitHub account (i.e. mine is denismaggior8)
$ cd <YOUR PREFERRED FOLDER>
$ git clone https://github.com/<YOUR GITHUB ACCOUNT>/ITS-ICT_Microservices
Please not that your forked repo, nor your local clone, will receive new commits from the original repo automatically; you need to pull updates manually, please refer to appendix A - Sync copy of forked repo
If you need some Git help, download The Git cheat-sheet