One of a developer's first tasks when they start with GitLab is to clone the GitLab repository. Here's how to create a GitLab repository and clone it from the server to a local machine.

Cloning from GitHub basically requires you to get a web address to feed into the Git client. For this example, we're going to clone the Microsoft Visual Studio Code repo.

To get started with Git, you need a git repository. This quick tutorial will show you how to use "git init" to quickly create a git repo on your local machine.

If you need a quick code repository, you have everything you need with git and SSH. Jack Wallen shows you how it's done.

Developers often use git repositories to store and retrieve source code files. This is usually done on a desktop computer, but new iOS apps allow you to access git repositories while on the go.