That's where GitHub CLI comes in. An official tool made by GitHub, it's good to use both on Windows 10 and Windows 11 in PowerShell or within the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

First, create a new local repository with the git init command. Second, issue the git clone command to locally copy the contents of a remotely hosted Git repository. In this git clone command tutorial ...

This example shows you how you can find and use the GitHub URL. Clone, fetch, push and pull to your remote repo easily with the GitHub URL at your disposal.

You now know the very basics of using Git to clone any GitHub repo. The only ones you can't clone are private repos not under your ownership, but everything else that's public is fair game.

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to clone a repository from GitHub. Git is the most widely-used distributed version control system on the planet.