How to Clone a GitHub Repo from the Terminal

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The following are very detailed instructions to accomplish these simple tasks:

Lets go!!

Open the terminal.
Check if you have Python already installed by typing python --version.
If the first number is <3 or you don't have Python, follow these instructions to update or install python.
Check if you have git installed by typing git --version.
If you don't have git (or even if you do!), install Homebrew:

This is a tool that lets you download packages more easily.
Type /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" into the terminal. It will walk you through the steps to install via the terminal.
Now you can type brew install git to install git.

Type pip install scipy to get a package that this code needs installed on your computer.
Now let's go to the folder where we want to save (ie clone) the repository:

To move into a specific folder, type its name like cd Desktop. You'll see that the name of this folder is now to the left of your cursor.
You can print a list of all of the folders and files inside of this folder (called a directory) by typing ls.
To go back to the previous folder level, type cd ..
I suggest making a folder in your Documents called something like "GITHUB" and storing all of your cloned repositories in there. To do that, you would type:
- cd Documents
- mkdir GITHUB
- cd GITHUB

Now we'll clone the desired repository (aka repo) by typing something like: git clone https://github.com/water-we-doing/gas-flux-sampling. Replace water-we-doing with the user and gas-well-sampling with the repo name for other repos.
Now when you look in the your Documents/GITHUB/ folder, you should see a folder called gas-flux-sampling with files in it!