Im not one of those software developers that shuns a Windows based GUI and portends that every operation performed on a computer is best performed using a command prompt or the BASH shell. But I can tell you that if you want to do version control with Git, the terminal window in Ubuntu is the best place to do it. Let me demonstrate that by demonstrating how to perform an Ubuntu git clone operation, taking all of the content from both a GitHub and a GitLab repository and copying it all down to my local machine.

The following is the list of steps required to perform an Ubuntu Git clone:

The commands used in the Ubuntu git clone example where the target was a GitLab project are as follows:

The process of cloning a GitHub repo in Ubuntu isnt that much different. Since the first set of commands installed Git and performed the one-off config operations, the set of commands is more compact:

You can find these repositories on GitHub and GitLab.

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