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So in the last lesson, we looked at how we can push our local repository to a remote repository
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on GitHub.
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Now, in this lesson, I want to talk about cloning a remote repository to pull it into your local machine.
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So this is called cloning or the command would be git clone, and that is a way for you to pull down all
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of the commits and all of the versions of a particular remote repository, and to store the files inside
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your working directory.
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So let's give it a go and see how it works in practice.
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So inside GitHub, if you search for open-source iOS apps, you can actually see a collaborative list
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of really awesome open-source iOS apps.
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So this is the place where you can browse by category and you can look at all the projects that people
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have made
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open source on GitHub, and you can maybe learn from how they format their code or how they write things.
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And it's a really, really good resource that I would recommend you to bookmark.
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So let's take a look at one of these projects so we can see that commit history so that we can clone
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it to our local machine.
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So this is a really cool repository.
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This is the game 2048 that this guy Austin Xieng has created.
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And we can put it onto our own system and we can have a look at the code, or simply run it and give
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it a go.
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So let's try and do that.
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So the first thing we're going to go to is this button where it says Clone or download.
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Now, previously, when we've been asking you to download our skeleton project because we haven't yet covered
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Git or GitHub, we've always asked you to simply download the zip and unzip it.
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Now, this is not as great an option as using git clone.
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So that's what we're going to do.
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So if we copy the URL of this particular repository, then we can go back into our Terminal and clone
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it to our Desktop.
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So at the moment, I am in my Desktop and all I'm going to do is I'm going to use the command "git clone,"
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and then I'm going to paste that URL that I copied earlier on.
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So, now if I hit enter, then it's going to clone into my very own local working directory: swift 2048. 
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And it didn't even take that long because it's actually quite small.
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So, now if I have a look at my Desktop, I can see this folder.
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So this is the project that I've just cloned down from GitHub. So if you double click on it, then you can
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see all of the project files inside swift-2048 as well as the Swift Xcode project.
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So let's go ahead and double click it to launch it and let's see if it works.
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So I'm actually going to try and run it locally on my simulator. So I'm not going to change any of these
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things.
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Now, if you wanted to run this or anything that you clone from GitHub, then you, obviously, have
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to change your bundle identifier and also change your team.
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But right now, I'm not going to mess with it because I'm just going to run it in my simulator,
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so these things don't matter so much.
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All right. So here's the app and I can already hit start game. So you can click and pull down to swipe
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down, and click to right to swipe right, and you can see that this is a beautiful implementation of the
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2048 game.
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So it works absolutely perfectly.
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And if you decide to go ahead and change the bundle identifier and also add your team, then you can actually
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run it on your phone and play with it.
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But more importantly, you can have a look inside the code files and see how exactly did they achieve
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this,
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you know, what is their coding style, what are some of the things that they used to create this game.
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So that was a quick demonstration of git clone.
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And the other thing that you should realize is that once you've cloned a project and you cd into it,
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so let's go inside that project,
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and you can also use git log to check out some of their previous commits, and you can see they've got all
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these commit messages that tell you what each commit was all about.
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All right.
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So that was a little bit on git cloning.
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So in the future, when you need to grab any of the skeleton project from our GitHub repository,
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then you'll know what to do,
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then you'll be able to use git clone to grab it and download it onto your local system.
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So in the next lesson, I'm going to be talking about something slightly more advanced. I'm gonna be talking
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about forking, making pull requests, and merging repositories.
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So all of that is yet to come.
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So I'll see you on the next lesson.