use of git to download a project

6.28: proj.addn/mac.git/use of git to download a project:

imac:~ addn$ man git

[1]+ Stopped man git

imac:~ addn$ git git://github.com/timburks/cocoa-programming-with-nu.git

git: 'git://github.com/timburks/cocoa-programming-with-nu.git' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.

imac:~ addn$ git --help

usage: git [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [-p|--paginate|--no-pager]

[--bare] [--git-dir=GIT_DIR] [--work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]

The most commonly used git commands are:

add Add file contents to the index

bisect Find the change that introduced a bug by binary search

branch List, create, or delete branches

checkout Checkout a branch or paths to the working tree

clone Clone a repository into a new directory

commit Record changes to the repository

diff Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc

fetch Download objects and refs from another repository

grep Print lines matching a pattern

init Create an empty git repository or reinitialize an existing one

log Show commit logs

merge Join two or more development histories together

mv Move or rename a file, a directory, or a symlink

pull Fetch from and merge with another repository or a local branch

push Update remote refs along with associated objects

rebase Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head

reset Reset current HEAD to the specified state

rm Remove files from the working tree and from the index

show Show various types of objects

status Show the working tree status

tag Create, list, delete or verify a tag object signed with GPG

See 'git help COMMAND' for more information on a specific command.

imac:~ addn$ git clone git://github.com/timburks/cocoa-programming-with-nu.git

Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/addn/cocoa-programming-with-nu/.git/

remote: Counting objects: 404, done.

remote: Compressing objects: 100% (182/182), done.

remote: Total 404 (delta 150), reused 404 (delta 150)

Receiving objects: 100% (404/404), 661.32 KiB | 197 KiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (150/150), done.

imac:~ addn$