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How to Create a New Repository

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To create a new Git repository, you have two options: starting from scratch or basing it on an existing repository.

Bare Repository (on Server Host)

Set up a repository on the server host by running the following command:

git init helloworld.git --bare

Alternatively, you can use the following commands:

mkdir helloworld.git
cd helloworld.git
git init --bare

A bare repository is typically named as “repo_name.git”.

Local Repository (as Client)

Create a repository as a workspace on your local machine by running the following command:

git init helloworld

Alternatively, you can use the following commands:

mkdir helloworld
cd helloworld
git init

This repository links no remote repositories, it can be set with git remote add {remote repo name} {remote repo URL}.

By following these steps, you can create a new repository either on the server host or on your local machine.

Clone

If you require to work with the existing code, you have the option to clone the current repository and proceed from there.

1. Clone a repository to workspace

This is the default way to clone.

git clone git@github.com:iridiumcao/iridiumcao.github.io.git

or

git clone git@github.com:iridiumcao/iridiumcao.github.io.git another_dir

2. Clone a bare repository

git clone --bare git@github.com:iridiumcao/iridiumcao.github.io.git

--bare

Make a bare Git repository. That is, instead of creating <directory> and placing the administrative files in <directory>/.git, make the <directory> itself the $GIT_DIR. This obviously implies the --no-checkout because there is nowhere to check out the working tree. Also the branch heads at the remote are copied directly to corresponding local branch heads, without mapping them to refs/remotes/origin/. When this option is used, neither remote-tracking branches nor the related configuration variables are created.

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3. Clone a repository as a mirror

git clone --mirror git@github.com:iridiumcao/iridiumcao.github.io.git

--mirror

Set up a mirror of the source repository. This implies --bare. Compared to --bare, --mirror not only maps local branches of the source to local branches of the target, it maps all refs (including remote-tracking branches, notes etc.) and sets up a refspec configuration such that all these refs are overwritten by a git remote update in the target repository.

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4. Shallow clone

In some cases, the entire history of a repository may not be necessary. In such situations, a user can opt for a shallow clone by specifying the clone depth.

git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:iridiumcao/iridiumcao.github.io.git

--depth <depth>

Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified number of commits. Implies --single-branch unless --no-single-branch is given to fetch the histories near the tips of all branches. If you want to clone submodules shallowly, also pass --shallow-submodules.

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