Command: Git Clone

(git clone)

Function: The command opens the Git Clone dialog. With the help of the dialog, a remote repository is copied to an empty directory, which in turn becomes a new local Git repository. After the copy operation, the local repository contains the complete history of the remote repository.

Call: Git menu

Requirement: No project is open in CODESYS.

Warning

When encryption is set for the CODESYS project (CODESYS-Project Settings – Security), the Git repository (neither local nor remote) is not automatically protected accordingly.

Table 5. Dialog: Git Clone

Clone from
Source URL	URL or file path of the remote repository
Clone to
Git storage path	File directory for the Git project storage (directory location of the local repository). Example: `D:\git_local\rep1`
Project file	File path for the project file (project directory). Note: The project file must not be in the same directory as the Git project storage. Example: `D:\git_projects\myproj1.project`
Project file type	Project Library

Related to the clone operation, you can use the Recover Project from Repository command to load a project, which already exists in the Git repository, as a new CODESYS project.