One of a developer's first tasks when they start with GitLab is to clone the GitLab repository. Here's how to create a GitLab repository and clone it from the server to a local machine.

Developers can bring all the code from a remote Git-based repository to a local machine, or anywhere else. Follow along with these three easy steps with the git clone command to move code from one ...

Git is also the tool that we'll be using to clone a GitHub repo from the cloud to a local machine.

Hosting your own code repository has many benefits, such as security and ease of use. Jack Wallen shows you how to deploy a local repository to your data center with Gogs.

The second link above will fix that problem. Once the local repo is initialized and a remote is configured, you should be able to run git status, git diff, etc.

Jack Wallen shows you how to set up your own GitLab server, so you can enjoy the power and flexibility of a LAN (or WAN) based Git repository.