Using GIT to get remote code

[xarzu]

I do not know from the online tutorial if I am properly establishing a connection with a git repository that is on a network.

All I have learned from a tutorial is how to set up a local repository, but getting data off of a network repository is knowledge I have yet to stumble upon or learn about and I wanted to save time by asking some online help forums.

I have just started using git after not using it for a while.
I have created a repository.
Then, as I was instructed, I made a “git clone” command which consisted of “git clone” followed by a path.
I expected this to get the contents of the path and put it into my repository – meaning the directory I made. This did not happen. What do I do?
How do I get a local copy of a remote work space for me to work on?

I am wondering if there is something like a "fetch" command I should be using.

The video tutorial I was looking at instructed how to make a local repository. But if I am trying to get code from a network location, how do I go about making that happen?

I was instructed at my job to run this command (copied here in pseudo code)

git clone blah-blah:/blah/git/noogie/dork_monkey/

and when I did this grom git-bash it did not produce any errors which led me to think it was the command I needed to do.

But I did this from the local directory that I used

git init

to set up as a locak repository.

I assumed that typiing a "git clone..." command would have copied all of the files on the blah-blah server over.

But it did not.

I wonder if all this might have something to do with the fact that I need to get my network up and running first.

In my File File Explorer window, when I click on the "This PC" icon on the left, I can see I have five Network locationis mapped to drive letters.

But when I click on the Network icon I get an error.

[Niheel]

If you're connected to the internet and the server can be accessed without git, you should be able to fetch the contents.

git init setups a new repository for new code

when you do git clone https://github.com/example-repo/example-lib it should pull and setup a local respository of the code for you, which you can start manipulating and pushing to that

# get public repo
git clone https://server/repo-location
 
# make changes
git add --all  // add the changed files and folders  to git tracking
git commit -m 'message with changes' // commits above changes
 
# commit only adds changes to your local repo, now you have to push to the public repo
git push
 
# to get changes made from other contributors to the repo
git fetch
 

references:
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-init
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-add
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-push
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fetch

[xarzu]

I double checked my network connection and tried again.

This time, I was prompted to give a password but all of my attempts failed. So, can it be that I just don't have the permissions? Could it be that I don't have network access at all?