Alex, a bright-eyed new developer, was eager to dive into his first open-source project 🚀. The project’s code was hosted on a remote repository, and Alex’s first task was to get a local copy. He opened his terminal and typed:

git clone https://github.com/open-source-project/awesome-project.git

This command, git clone, fetched the entire repository from GitHub and created a local copy on his machine. 🌎

Now, Alex was ready to start contributing. He began by creating a new branch for his feature: 🌳

git checkout -b new-feature

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