Git - Command line newbie question

Support Other Software
1

Greetings,

I sent this question to the dev forum, but they deleted it… Let’s try again…

On 6/7/2023, I ran the following command line:

git clone https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender.git

And it was good. What happens when I run it again? Will it download everything, or just the new stuff?

Thanks,
Cal

2

You only wanna run clone once… after that you pull

Highly recommend a git command line tutorial - maybe try W3School’s one

Good luck.

3

Thanks so much! You’ve saved me a bunch of time. :+1:

4

You want to run git pull from within the cloned repository to download the latest changes. Git is a bit of an abomination which is usually learned from within the trenches of one’s first comp sci job. There aren’t any good tutorials on it that I am aware of.

Basically, it’s distributed, multi-user track-keeping of present, old and alternative versions of files within a folder (“repository”) on steroids.

5

Thanks! Will check it out! :+1: