Everything you pull from GitHub will be an initialized Git repository, with files inside that allow it to interact with Git, and in turn, allow you to pull updates.

1] Using Git Command Line This method uses Git commands in the terminal (Git Bash) to initialize your project as a Git repository, link it to a GitHub repository, and push your code.

git init If you already had a repository ready to go, you'd just need to cd to that directory and then run the git init command in there instead. Either way, your local repository is ready to go ...