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Working with git repositories

Examples of git commands to work with repositories.

Get the repository status​

git status

Initialize a repository​

git init

Initialize a bare repository​

A bare repository contains only a .git directory. Bare repositories can be used on git servers and/or with git hooks.

git init --bare

Clone a remote repository​

Clone branch targetBranch of the remoteRepository into targetDirectory:

git clone -b targetBranch remoteRepositoryUrl targetDirectory