Git clone command

Use:

Bashgit clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPO.git

For example:

Bashgit clone https://github.com/darrenkal/popsass.git

Then enter the project folder:

Bashcd popsass

If it's a private repo, I usually recommend GitHub CLI instead:

Bashgh auth login
gh repo clone YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPO

Or if you already have SSH configured:

Bashgit clone git@github.com:YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPO.git

For a typical Next.js project on a brand-new machine, the full flow would usually be:

Bashgit clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPO.git
cd YOUR-REPO
npm install
npm run dev

One important thing: .env.local normally isn't stored in GitHub, so you'll need to recreate/download your environment variables separately on the new machine.

Yes. If you want the repo contents to be cloned directly into your current folder, use a dot at the end:

Bashgit clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPO.git .

So instead of getting:

current-folder/
└── your-repo/
    ├── package.json
    ├── src/
    └── ...

you'll get:

current-folder/
├── package.json
├── src/
└── ...

The important part is:

Bash.

which means "clone into the current directory."

The current folder normally needs to be empty. A typical flow is:

Bashmkdir popsass
cd popsass
git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/popsass.git .
npm install
npm run dev

If your current folder already contains files and Git refuses to clone into it, tell me what is already inside and I can give you the safest command to pull the repo into that existing folder without creating another nested folder.

On a Mac, open the Terminal app, then type:

Bashbash

That starts a Bash shell inside Terminal.

To check which shell you're currently using:

Bashecho $SHELL

On newer macOS versions, you'll probably see:

Bash/bin/zsh

because macOS uses Zsh by default.

If you just want to temporarily switch to Bash:

Bashbash

To return to Zsh afterward:

Bashexit

And for commands like git clone, cd, npm install, and npm run dev, you don't actually need Bash. They work perfectly fine in the default Mac Zsh terminal too.