Clone Git repository

Usually you will start from cloning an existing Git repository from remote. In this exercise, we will use the VSCode to clone a repository on GitHub.

Prerequisite

signing up to GitHub for a personal account
being a member of the GitHub organization dccn-tg

Strickly speaking, cloning a public GitHub repository does not require a GitHub account. However, we will need the GitHub account to make contribution to the public repository in later exercises.

Clone the repository

open VSCode to clone a repository from GitHub
select the repository dccn-tg/tg-workshop and clone into a local directory.
Once the repository is cloned, choose Open to open the cloned repository in the VSCode. You should see something like the screenshot below. On the left-hand side, a list of files in the repository is shown.